From: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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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 <[email protected]>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 7bca3c6..4267f42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -989,6 +989,9 @@ 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;
--
1.7.4.4
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