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Message-Id: <1222452320-16281-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:05:16 -0500
From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb
From: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@...peaks.co.jp>
On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte
of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing
beyond the memory boundary.
Signed-off-by: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@...peaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
---
kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c
index eaa21fc..949806a 100644
--- a/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static int write_mem_msg(int binary)
if (err)
return err;
if (CACHE_FLUSH_IS_SAFE)
- flush_icache_range(addr, addr + length + 1);
+ flush_icache_range(addr, addr + length);
return 0;
}
--
1.6.0.90.g436ed.dirty
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