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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2011-08-10 20:44:24 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-20 15:53:23 +1000
commita11940978bd598e65996b4f807cf4904793f7025 (patch)
tree95a62b555abb28b0334f8eea8c856a3c0c0c5991 /arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
parentdfbe93a222e74b6f96ad84eff2b04a0f864fac65 (diff)
powerpc: Fix oops when echoing bad values to /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
If we echo an address the hypervisor doesn't like to /sys/devices/system/memory/probe we oops the box: # echo 0x10000000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c:541! The backtrace is: create_section_mapping arch_add_memory add_memory memory_probe_store sysdev_class_store sysfs_write_file vfs_write SyS_write In create_section_mapping we BUG if htab_bolt_mapping returned an error. A better approach is to return an error which will propagate back to userspace. Rerunning the test with this patch applied: # echo 0x10000000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index ad9cf49dfb8..5db316cad47 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
pgdata = NODE_DATA(nid);
start = (unsigned long)__va(start);
- create_section_mapping(start, start + size);
+ if (create_section_mapping(start, start + size))
+ return -EINVAL;
/* this should work for most non-highmem platforms */
zone = pgdata->node_zones;