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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v3] x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas
On 03/19/2010 03:18 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>
> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial().
>
> Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems.
>
> -v3: according to hpa, don't bother caller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
> kernel/early_res.c | 5 +++++
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/early_res.c b/kernel/early_res.c
> index 3cb2c66..f3a861b 100644
> --- a/kernel/early_res.c
> +++ b/kernel/early_res.c
> @@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ void __init free_early_partial(u64 start, u64 end)
> struct early_res *r;
> int i;
>
> + if (WARN_ONCE(start >= end,
> + "free_early_partial got wrong start/end %#llx/%#llx\n",
> + start, end))
> + return;
> +
> try_next:
> i = find_overlapped_early(start, end);
> if (i >= max_early_res)

No, that's wrong.

The workaround is still needed for the case of equality to avoid the
infinite loop.

So you need an:

if (start == end)
return;

-hpa


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