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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-10-19 09:17:46 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-21 09:10:56 (GMT)
commit6f3760570e26eefc214e641b6daeddb7106240bb (patch)
tree70e4a45ca8850771c6219ccd002e1ad284400fee /arch
parentf56d55781c1ff5663874775d0672ba954fe5634c (diff)
downloadlinux-6f3760570e26eefc214e641b6daeddb7106240bb.tar.xz
x86/setup/crash: Check memblock_reserve() retval
memblock_reserve() can fail but the crashkernel reservation code doesn't check that and this can lead the user into believing that the crashkernel region was actually reserved. Make sure we check that return value and we exit early with a failure message in the error case. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Cc: jerry_hoemann@hp.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445246268-26285-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/setup.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index d478871..3f75297 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -531,7 +531,11 @@ static int __init reserve_crashkernel_low(void)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- memblock_reserve(low_base, low_size);
+ ret = memblock_reserve(low_base, low_size);
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_err("%s: Error reserving crashkernel low memblock.\n", __func__);
+ return ret;
+ }
pr_info("Reserving %ldMB of low memory at %ldMB for crashkernel (System low RAM: %ldMB)\n",
(unsigned long)(low_size >> 20),
@@ -589,7 +593,11 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
return;
}
}
- memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
+ ret = memblock_reserve(crash_base, crash_size);
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_err("%s: Error reserving crashkernel memblock.\n", __func__);
+ return;
+ }
if (crash_base >= (1ULL << 32) && reserve_crashkernel_low()) {
memblock_free(crash_base, crash_size);