linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 06/12] ppc64/kexec_file: restrict memory usage of kdump kernel

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Message-ID: <f1e6f1d4-5052-ce6a-747f-bb821987b75a@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:47:25 +0530
From:   Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Pingfan Liu <piliu@...hat.com>, Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Kexec-ml <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
        Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/12] ppc64/kexec_file: restrict memory usage of kdump
 kernel



On 17/07/20 3:33 am, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> 
> Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> On 16/07/20 4:22 am, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>>>
>>> Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com> writes:
>>>

<snip>
 
>>>> +	 * each representing a memory range.
>>>> +	 */
>>>> +	ranges = (len >> 2) / (n_mem_addr_cells + n_mem_size_cells);
>>>> +
>>>> +	for (i = 0; i < ranges; i++) {
>>>> +		base = of_read_number(prop, n_mem_addr_cells);
>>>> +		prop += n_mem_addr_cells;
>>>> +		end = base + of_read_number(prop, n_mem_size_cells) - 1;
>>
>> prop is not used after the above.
>>
>>> You need to `prop += n_mem_size_cells` here.
>>
>> But yeah, adding it would make it look complete in some sense..
> 
> Isn't it used in the next iteration of the loop?

Memory@.../reg typically has only one range. I was looking at it
from that perspective which is not right. Will update.

Thanks
Hari