Re: [LKML] [PATCH -v6] x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:38:30PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial().
> 
> Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems.
> 
> -v5: put back start > end back into WARN_ONCE()
> -v6: use one line for if according to linus
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  kernel/early_res.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/early_res.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/early_res.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/early_res.c
> @@ -333,6 +333,12 @@ void __init free_early_partial(u64 start
>  	struct early_res *r;
>  	int i;
>  
> +	if (start == end)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (WARN_ONCE(start > end, "free_early_partial: wrong range [%#llx, %#llx]\n", start, end))
> +		return;
> +
>  try_next:
>  	i = find_overlapped_early(start, end);
>  	if (i >= max_early_res)
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