linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: crashk_res init check for /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size

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Message-ID: <4ECCF669.6080007@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:34:33 +0800
From:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:	holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: crashk_res init check for /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size

On 11/23/2011 09:18 PM, Michael Holzheu wrote:

> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Currently it is possible to set the crash_size via the sysfs
> /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size even if no crash kernel memory has
> been defined with the "crashkernel" parameter. In this case
> "crashk_res" is not initialized and crashk_res.start = crashk_res.end = 0.
> Unfortunately resource_size(&crashk_res) returns 1 in this case.
> This breaks the s390 implementation of crash_(un)map_reserved_pages().
> 
> To fix the problem the correct "old_size" is now calculated in
> crash_shrink_memory(). "old_size is set to "0" if crashk_res is
> not initialized. With this change crash_shrink_memory() will do nothing,
> when "crashk_res" is not initialized. It will return "0" for
> "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" and -EINVAL for
> "echo [not zero] > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size".
> 
> In addition to that this patch also simplifies the "ret = -EINVAL"
> vs. "ret = 0" logic as suggested by Simon Horman.
> 
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec.c |   10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ void __weak crash_free_reserved_phys_ran
>  int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
>  {
>  	int ret = 0;
> -	unsigned long start, end;
> +	unsigned long start, end, old_size;

Sorry for jump in a little late, instead of introduce a new variable,
why not add something like:

if (!end)
	return -EINVAL;

>  
>  	mutex_lock(&kexec_mutex);
>  
> @@ -1141,11 +1141,9 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long ne
>  	}
>  	start = crashk_res.start;
>  	end = crashk_res.end;
> -
> -	if (new_size >= end - start + 1) {
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		if (new_size == end - start + 1)
> -			ret = 0;
> +	old_size = (end == 0) ? 0 : end - start + 1;
> +	if (new_size >= old_size) {
> +		ret = (new_size == old_size) ? 0 : -EINVAL;
>  		goto unlock;
>  	}
>  
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> kexec mailing list
> kexec@...ts.infradead.org
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec

-- 
Thanks
Dave
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