Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752767AbYGXDm5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:42:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751334AbYGXDms (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:42:48 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43876 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbYGXDmr (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:42:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080723.204247.114065226.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, lomp0101@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hannes@saeurebad.de Subject: Re: [Bug 11046] New: Kernel bug in mm/bootmem.c on Sparc machines From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080723203836.e0c14568.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080706132049.4019e09f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080723.202533.114601491.davem@davemloft.net> <20080723203836.e0c14568.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1252 Lines: 43 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:38:36 -0700 > So if we're going to change it in 2.6.26, we'll need a separate patch. Here is the 2.6.26 version: bootmem: Allow zero length reserve and free. It's either this or all the call sites explicitly check when such a case is possible and sometimes expected. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c index 8d9f60e..e540f7a 100644 --- a/mm/bootmem.c +++ b/mm/bootmem.c @@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ static void __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata, unsigned long sidx, eidx; unsigned long i; - BUG_ON(!size); + if (!size) + return; /* out of range */ if (addr + size < bdata->node_boot_start || @@ -187,7 +188,8 @@ static void __init free_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata, unsigned long addr, unsigned long sidx, eidx; unsigned long i; - BUG_ON(!size); + if (!size) + return; /* out range */ if (addr + size < bdata->node_boot_start || -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/