linux-kernel - [PATCH] [17/35] i386: probe

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:52:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...-64.org
Subject: [PATCH] [17/35] i386: probe_roms() cleanup


From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>

Remove the assumption that if the first page of a legacy ROM is mapped,
it'll all be mapped. This'll also stop people reading this code from
wondering if they're looking at a bug...

Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Murray <murrayma@...i.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/i386/kernel/e820.c |   29 ++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
@@ -161,26 +161,27 @@ static struct resource standard_io_resou
 
 static int __init romsignature(const unsigned char *rom)
 {
+	const unsigned short * const ptr = (const unsigned short *)rom;
 	unsigned short sig;
 
-	return probe_kernel_address((const unsigned short *)rom, sig) == 0 &&
-	       sig == ROMSIGNATURE;
+	return probe_kernel_address(ptr, sig) == 0 && sig == ROMSIGNATURE;
 }
 
-static int __init romchecksum(unsigned char *rom, unsigned long length)
+static int __init romchecksum(const unsigned char *rom, unsigned long length)
 {
-	unsigned char sum;
+	unsigned char sum, c;
 
-	for (sum = 0; length; length--)
-		sum += *rom++;
-	return sum == 0;
+	for (sum = 0; length && probe_kernel_address(rom++, c) == 0; length--)
+		sum += c;
+	return !length && !sum;
 }
 
 static void __init probe_roms(void)
 {
+	const unsigned char *rom;
 	unsigned long start, length, upper;
-	unsigned char *rom;
-	int	      i;
+	unsigned char c;
+	int i;
 
 	/* video rom */
 	upper = adapter_rom_resources[0].start;
@@ -191,8 +192,11 @@ static void __init probe_roms(void)
 
 		video_rom_resource.start = start;
 
+		if (probe_kernel_address(rom + 2, c) != 0)
+			continue;
+
 		/* 0 < length <= 0x7f * 512, historically */
-		length = rom[2] * 512;
+		length = c * 512;
 
 		/* if checksum okay, trust length byte */
 		if (length && romchecksum(rom, length))
@@ -226,8 +230,11 @@ static void __init probe_roms(void)
 		if (!romsignature(rom))
 			continue;
 
+		if (probe_kernel_address(rom + 2, c) != 0)
+			continue;
+
 		/* 0 < length <= 0x7f * 512, historically */
-		length = rom[2] * 512;
+		length = c * 512;
 
 		/* but accept any length that fits if checksum okay */
 		if (!length || start + length > upper || !romchecksum(rom, length))
-
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