linux-kernel - [PATCH] memory hotplug: Refuse to add unaligned memory regions

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Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:26:15 +1000
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, nfont@...tin.ibm.com
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] memory hotplug: Refuse to add unaligned memory regions


The sysfs memory probe interface allows unaligned regions
to be added:

# echo 0xffffff > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe

# cat /proc/iomem 
00ffffff-01fffffe : System RAM
01ffffff-02fffffe : System RAM
02ffffff-03fffffe : System RAM
03ffffff-04fffffe : System RAM
04ffffff-05fffffe : System RAM

Return -EINVAL instead of creating these bad regions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
---

Index: linux-build/drivers/base/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-build.orig/drivers/base/memory.c	2011-08-11 08:25:55.005941391 +1000
+++ linux-build/drivers/base/memory.c	2011-08-11 08:28:27.938580440 +1000
@@ -380,9 +380,13 @@ memory_probe_store(struct class *class,
 	u64 phys_addr;
 	int nid;
 	int i, ret;
+	unsigned long pages_per_block = PAGES_PER_SECTION * sections_per_block;
 
 	phys_addr = simple_strtoull(buf, NULL, 0);
 
+	if (phys_addr & ((pages_per_block << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < sections_per_block; i++) {
 		nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(phys_addr);
 		ret = add_memory(nid, phys_addr,
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