diff --git a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
index cbae8be1fe5200..b5715b8ded8974 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ bool last_level_cache_is_valid(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct cacheinfo *llc;
 
-	if (!cache_leaves(cpu))
+	if (!cache_leaves(cpu) || !per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu))
 		return false;
 
 	llc = per_cpu_cacheinfo_idx(cpu, cache_leaves(cpu) - 1);
@@ -478,11 +478,9 @@ int __weak populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int cpu)
 	return -ENOENT;
 }
 
-static inline
-int allocate_cache_info(int cpu)
+static inline int allocate_cache_info(int cpu)
 {
-	per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) = kcalloc(cache_leaves(cpu),
-					 sizeof(struct cacheinfo), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu) = kcalloc(cache_leaves(cpu), sizeof(struct cacheinfo), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu)) {
 		cache_leaves(cpu) = 0;
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -554,7 +552,11 @@ static inline int init_level_allocate_ci(unsigned int cpu)
 	 */
 	ci_cacheinfo(cpu)->early_ci_levels = false;
 
-	if (cache_leaves(cpu) <= early_leaves)
+	/*
+	 * Some architectures (e.g., x86) do not use early initialization.
+	 * Allocate memory now in such case.
+	 */
+	if (cache_leaves(cpu) <= early_leaves && per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu))
 		return 0;
 
 	kfree(per_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu));