2016-10-12 H.J. Lu [BZ #20647] * sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c (handle_intel): Return -1 if the maximum CPUID level is less than 2. Index: glibc-2.24/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c =================================================================== --- glibc-2.24.orig/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c +++ glibc-2.24/sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c @@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ intel_check_word (int name, unsigned int static long int __attribute__ ((noinline)) handle_intel (int name, unsigned int maxidx) { - assert (maxidx >= 2); + /* Return -1 for older CPUs. */ + if (maxidx < 2) + return -1; /* OK, we can use the CPUID instruction to get all info about the caches. */