[patch 38/45] x86: fix 64k corruption-check
From: Chris Wright
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 19:34:42 EST
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
---------------------
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
upstream commit: 6d7942dc2a70a7e74c352107b150265602671588
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>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/check.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c
@@ -86,12 +86,12 @@ void __init setup_bios_corruption_check(
if (addr == 0)
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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