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x86, alternatives: BUG on encountering an invalid CPU feature number

Make the alternatives-patching code BUG on encountering an invalid CPU
feature number.  Should have done this a long time ago.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinhai@kernel.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-df378ccfc4dd04e263426ad805516915874774aa@git.kernel.org>
H. Peter Anvin 15 years ago
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      arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

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arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
 		u8 *instr = a->instr;
 		BUG_ON(a->replacementlen > a->instrlen);
 		BUG_ON(a->instrlen > sizeof(insnbuf));
+		BUG_ON(a->cpuid >= NCAPINTS*32);
 		if (!boot_cpu_has(a->cpuid))
 			continue;
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64