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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-10-19 11:17:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-10-21 11:10:56 +0200
commit6f3760570e26eefc214e641b6daeddb7106240bb (patch)
tree70e4a45ca8850771c6219ccd002e1ad284400fee /arch/x86/kernel
parentx86/setup/crash: Cleanup some more (diff)
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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/x86/kernel')
-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 d4788719a1e2..3f75297d5fd0 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);