linux-kernel - [014/165] powerpc/kdump64: Dont reference freed memory as pacas

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Message-Id: <20110601081056.092625166@blue.kroah.org>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:09:44 +0900
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,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [014/165] powerpc/kdump64: Dont reference freed memory as pacas

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

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From: Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>

commit bd9e5eefecb3d69018bb95796298019d309cbec8 upstream.

Starting with 1426d5a3bd07589534286375998c0c8c6fdc5260 (powerpc:
Dynamically allocate pacas) the space for pacas beyond cpu_possible
is freed, but we failed to update the loop in crash.c.

Since c1854e00727f50f7ac99e98d26ece04c087ef785 (powerpc: Set nr_cpu_ids
early and use it to free PACAs) the number of pacas allocated is
always nr_cpu_ids.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static void crash_kexec_wait_realmode(in
 	int i;
 
 	msecs = 10000;
-	for (i=0; i < NR_CPUS && msecs > 0; i++) {
+	for (i=0; i < nr_cpu_ids && msecs > 0; i++) {
 		if (i == cpu)
 			continue;
 


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