2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Joerg Roedel Upstream commit 83fd5cc6481c6b7fa8b45f8a7e0aa7120213430b This is pointer list and if we dereference an uninitialized pointer later this results in a kernel crash at boot. Happens typically after 3-5 hours of rebooting. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c @@ -930,7 +930,8 @@ int __init amd_iommu_init(void) goto free; /* IOMMU rlookup table - find the IOMMU for a specific device */ - amd_iommu_rlookup_table = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, + amd_iommu_rlookup_table = (void *)__get_free_pages( + GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, get_order(rlookup_table_size)); if (amd_iommu_rlookup_table == NULL) goto free; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/