linux-kernel - [patch 074/149] ARM: 6144/1: TCM memory bug freeing bug

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Message-Id: <20100701173213.037129124@clark.site>
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:31:40 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: [patch 074/149] ARM: 6144/1: TCM memory bug freeing bug

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>

commit ea208f646c8fb91c39c852e952fc911e1ad045ab upstream.

This fixes a bug in mm/init.c when freeing the TCM compile memory,
this was being referred to as a char * which is incorrect: this
will dereference the pointer and feed in the value at the location
instead of the address to it. Change it to a plain char and use
&(char) to reference it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/arm/mm/init.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -632,10 +632,10 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 void free_initmem(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
-	extern char *__tcm_start, *__tcm_end;
+	extern char __tcm_start, __tcm_end;
 
-	totalram_pages += free_area(__phys_to_pfn(__pa(__tcm_start)),
-				    __phys_to_pfn(__pa(__tcm_end)),
+	totalram_pages += free_area(__phys_to_pfn(__pa(&__tcm_start)),
+				    __phys_to_pfn(__pa(&__tcm_end)),
 				    "TCM link");
 #endif
 


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