3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Tang Chen <[email protected]> commit 0cfb8f0c3e21e36d4a6e472e4c419d58ba848698 upstream. In memblock_find_in_range_node(), we defined ret as int. But it should be phys_addr_t because it is used to store the return value from __memblock_find_range_bottom_up(). The bug has not been triggered because when allocating low memory near the kernel end, the "int ret" won't turn out to be negative. When we started to allocate memory on other nodes, and the "int ret" could be minus. Then the kernel will panic. A simple way to reproduce this: comment out the following code in numa_init(), memblock_set_bottom_up(false); and the kernel won't boot. Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <[email protected]> Tested-by: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/memblock.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memblock.c +++ b/mm/memblock.c @@ -192,8 +192,7 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_fin phys_addr_t align, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end, int nid) { - int ret; - phys_addr_t kernel_end; + phys_addr_t kernel_end, ret; /* pump up @end */ if (end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
