linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 04/35] MIPS: kexec: Do not reserve invalid crashkernel memory on boot

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Message-Id: <20171006092402.973828746@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri,  6 Oct 2017 11:24:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@...tec.com>,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 04/35] MIPS: kexec: Do not reserve invalid crashkernel memory on boot

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@...tec.com>


[ Upstream commit a8f108d70c74d83574c157648383eb2e4285a190 ]

Do not reserve memory for the crashkernel if the commandline argument
points to a wrong location. This can happen if the location is specified
wrong or if the same commandline is reused when starting the crashkernel
- in the latter case the reserved memory would point to the location
from which the crashkernel is executing.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@...tec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14612/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/mips/kernel/setup.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -585,6 +585,11 @@ static void __init mips_parse_crashkerne
 	if (ret != 0 || crash_size <= 0)
 		return;
 
+	if (!memory_region_available(crash_base, crash_size)) {
+		pr_warn("Invalid memory region reserved for crash kernel\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	crashk_res.start = crash_base;
 	crashk_res.end	 = crash_base + crash_size - 1;
 }