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However, a CPU may have come\nonline recently, but its cacheinfo may not have been allocated yet.\n\nWhile here, remove an unnecessary indentation in allocate_cache_info().\n\n [ bp: Massage. ]"}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: cacheinfo: Asignar memoria durante la conexi\u00f3n en caliente de la CPU si no se hace desde la CPU principal. el commit 5944ce092b97 (\"arch_topology: Generar cacheinfo desde la CPU principal\") a\u00f1ade una funcionalidad que las arquitecturas pueden utilizar para asignar y generar opcionalmente cacheinfo de forma temprana durante el arranque. el commit 6539cffa9495 (\"cacheinfo: A\u00f1adir inicializador de nivel temprano espec\u00edfico de la arquitectura\") permite que las CPU secundarias corrijan (y reasignen memoria) los datos de cacheinfo si es necesario. 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No basta con comprobar si hay cache_leaves() distintos de cero, ya que algunas arquitecturas (por ejemplo, los procesadores Intel) tienen cache_leaves() distintos de cero antes de la asignaci\u00f3n. La anulaci\u00f3n de referencias a cacheinfo NULL puede ocurrir en update_per_cpu_data_slice_size(). Esta funci\u00f3n itera sobre todas las CPU en l\u00ednea. Sin embargo, es posible que una CPU se haya conectado recientemente, pero que su cacheinfo a\u00fan no se haya asignado. Mientras est\u00e9 aqu\u00ed, elimine una sangr\u00eda innecesaria en allocate_cache_info(). 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