From 77eed821accf5dd962b1f13bed0680e217e49112 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kamal Mostafa Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:38:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param Avoid removing all of memory and panicing when "mem={invalid}" is specified, e.g. mem=blahblah, mem=0, or mem=nopentium (on platforms other than x86_32). Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464 Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Len Brown Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: # .3x: as far back as it applies LKML-Reference: <1296783486-23033-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c index 294f26da0c0c..55a59d889dbd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c @@ -856,6 +856,9 @@ static int __init parse_memopt(char *p) userdef = 1; mem_size = memparse(p, &p); + /* don't remove all of memory when handling "mem={invalid}" param */ + if (mem_size == 0) + return -EINVAL; e820_remove_range(mem_size, ULLONG_MAX - mem_size, E820_RAM, 1); return 0; -- 2.11.0