Re: Fix OOPS in crash_kernel_shrink

From: Cong Wang
Date: Tue Apr 20 2010 - 08:53:11 EST


Vitaly Mayatskikh wrote:
Two "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" OOPSes kernel. Also
content of this file is invalid after first shrink to zero: it shows 1
instead of 0.

This patch fixes it.

Hmmm, I certainly did tests for 'echo 0 > kexec_crash_size' when I
worked on this, but I didn't get any oops. Can you show me the full
oops?

But yes, the size calculation looks wrong.


Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 87ebe8a..474a847 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1134,11 +1134,9 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
free_reserved_phys_range(end, crashk_res.end);
- if (start == end) {
- crashk_res.end = end;
+ if (start == end)
release_resource(&crashk_res);
- } else
- crashk_res.end = end - 1;
+ crashk_res.end = end - 1;

If we do this, crashk_res.end will be ahead of crashk.start.

Thanks.
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