linux-kernel - Re: Infinite loop on boot in free_early_partial due to start==end on tip/master

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1267818342.20243.35.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:45:42 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Infinite loop on boot in free_early_partial due to start==end
 on tip/master

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:16 +0000, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> > +     if (unlikely(start>=end)) {
> > +             WARN_ONCE(1, "free_early_partial get wrong start/end
> \n:);
> > +             return;
> > +     }
> > + 

Sure, although this can be written:

if (WARN_ONCE(start >= end, "free_early_partial.....\n"))
return;

Updated patch to follow.

Ian.



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/