From: Thomas Abraham <tabraham@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:52:33 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: lscpu: avoid segfault on PowerPC systems with valid hardware configurations
X-Git-Tag: v2.36.1~47
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb4d39ff41ea8bcfc7ec2b36db68c72f8c21c3c9;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

lscpu: avoid segfault on PowerPC systems with valid hardware configurations

ntypes greater than 1 is valid in some hardware configurations, and an assert()
on the value isn't necessary or very future proof
---

diff --git a/sys-utils/lscpu.c b/sys-utils/lscpu.c
index ca085b665a..90c475a1f4 100644
--- a/sys-utils/lscpu.c
+++ b/sys-utils/lscpu.c
@@ -440,8 +440,6 @@ static void read_physical_info_powerpc(struct lscpu_desc *desc)
 		return;
 
 	ntypes = strbe16toh(buf, 2);
-
-	assert(ntypes <= 1);
 	if (!ntypes)
 		return;