0000000000000000
> [    0.128001] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 0000000000000000 DR7: 0000000000000000
> [    0.128001] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81594000, task ffffff
> ff8152a4a0)
> [    0.128001] Stack:
> [    0.128001]  0000000081595e68 5aa50ed3b4ddbe6e ffffffff8158f900 ffffffff8158f
> 914
> [    0.128001]  ffffffff8158f948 0000000000000000 ffffffff81595eb8 ffffffff813b8
> 69c
> [    0.128001]  5aa50ed3b4ddbe6e 00000001078bfbfd 0000062300000800 5aa50ed3b4ddb
> e6e
> [    0.128001] Call Trace:
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff813b869c>] identify_cpu+0x331/0x392
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff815a1445>] identify_boot_cpu+0x23/0x6e
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff815a14ac>] check_bugs+0x1c/0x60
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff8159c075>] start_kernel+0x403/0x46e
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff8159b2ac>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xac/0xd5
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff8159b3ea>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x115/0x14b
> [    0.128001]  [<ffffffff8159b140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71

This happens on QEMU which reports MCA capability, but no banks.
Without this patch there is a buffer overrun and boot ops because
the code would try to initialize the 0 element of a zero length
kmalloc() buffer.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090615125200.GD31969@one.firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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