[tip:x86/mm] x86: fix 64k corruption-check

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sun Mar 15 2009 - 02:13:20 EST


Commit-ID: 6d7942dc2a70a7e74c352107b150265602671588
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6d7942dc2a70a7e74c352107b150265602671588
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:32:41 -0700
Commit: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:03:15 +0100

x86: fix 64k corruption-check

Impact: fix boot crash

Need to exit early if the addr is far above 64k.

The crash got exposed by:

78a8b35: x86: make e820_update_range() handle small range update

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <49BC2279.2030101@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/kernel/check.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
index b617b11..fc999e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
@@ -86,12 +86,12 @@ void __init setup_bios_corruption_check(void)
if (!(addr + 1))
break;

+ if (addr >= corruption_check_size)
+ break;
+
if ((addr + size) > corruption_check_size)
size = corruption_check_size - addr;

- if (size == 0)
- break;
-
e820_update_range(addr, size, E820_RAM, E820_RESERVED);
scan_areas[num_scan_areas].addr = addr;
scan_areas[num_scan_areas].size = size;
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