linux-kernel - [04/78] x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param

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Message-Id: <20110321230322.046408793@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:01:20 -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,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [04/78] x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param

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

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From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>

commit 77eed821accf5dd962b1f13bed0680e217e49112 upstream.

Avoid removing all of memory and panicing when "mem={invalid}"
is specified, e.g. mem=blahblah, mem=0, or mem=nopentium (on
platforms other than x86_32).

Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
LKML-Reference: <1296783486-23033-1-git-send-email-kamal@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -856,6 +856,9 @@ static int __init parse_memopt(char *p)

 	userdef = 1;
 	mem_size = memparse(p, &p);
+	/* don't remove all of memory when handling "mem={invalid}" param */
+	if (mem_size == 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	e820_remove_range(mem_size, ULLONG_MAX - mem_size, E820_RAM, 1);

 	return 0;

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