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authorKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>2011-02-03 17:38:04 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-23 13:03:33 -0700
commitd59c7a3611a0873d10d86fd287ded8ced69c875c (patch)
tree2cf5ca2d39d13af05d29c1b8ea801d93a24c27e3 /arch
parent1883e22e58194ef67349ff23333defebaaafa530 (diff)
x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param
commit 77eed821accf5dd962b1f13bed0680e217e49112 upstream. Avoid removing all of memory and panicing when "mem={invalid}" is specified, e.g. mem=blahblah, mem=0, or mem=nopentium (on platforms other than x86_32). Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464 Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> LKML-Reference: <1296783486-23033-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/e820.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 294f26da0c0..55a59d889db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -856,6 +856,9 @@ static int __init parse_memopt(char *p)
userdef = 1;
mem_size = memparse(p, &p);
+ /* don't remove all of memory when handling "mem={invalid}" param */
+ if (mem_size == 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
e820_remove_range(mem_size, ULLONG_MAX - mem_size, E820_RAM, 1);
return 0;