linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.4-rc3] memblock: memblock should be able to handle zero length operations

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:19:12 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Valere Monseur <valere.monseur@...il.com>,
	Joseph Freeman <jfree143dev@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4-rc3] memblock: memblock should be able to handle zero
 length operations

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This is causing early panics if anyone tries to reserve zero len area,
> which unfortunately isn't too uncommon depending on BIOS.  The fix is
> fairly safe.  Unsure which tree it should go through.  Cc'ing Linus
> and Ingo.

Applied,

              Linus
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