linux-kernel - [34-longterm 172/247] x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param

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Message-Id: <1308850515-15242-113-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:34:00 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 172/247] x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param

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

                   -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
                   -------------------

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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 7bca3c6..4267f42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -989,6 +989,9 @@ 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;
-- 
1.7.4.4

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