Re: [PATCH] mips: Move initrd_start check after initrd address sanitisation.

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 05:14:00 EST


On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 06:29:21PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> PAGE_OFFSET is technically a virtual address so when checking the value of
> initrd_start against it we should make sure that it has been sanitised from
> the values passed by the bootloader. Without this change, even with a bootloader
> that passes correct addresses for an initrd, we are failing to load it on MT7621
> boards, for example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

applied to mips-fixes.

Thomas.

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