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From: sboyd@codeaurora.org (Stephen Boyd)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix invalid loop for poison_init_mem
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:44:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E397AF9.8070702@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312385728-27311-1-git-send-email-jamie@jamieiles.com>

On 08/03/2011 08:35 AM, Jamie Iles wrote:
> poison_init_mem() used a loop of:
>
> 	while ((count = count - 4))
>
> which has 2 problems - an off by one error so that we do one less word
> than we should, and the other is that if count == 0 then we loop forever
> and poison too much.  On a platform with HAVE_TCM=y but nothing in the
> TCM's, this caused corruption and the platform failed to boot.
>

Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>

>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/init.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> index 2fee782..91bca35 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static inline int free_area(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end, char *s)
>  static inline void poison_init_mem(void *s, size_t count)
>  {
>  	u32 *p = (u32 *)s;
> -	while ((count = count - 4))
> +	for (; count != 0; count -= 4)
>  		*p++ = 0xe7fddef0;
>  }
>  

Now where's that bag...

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-03 15:35 [PATCH] mm: fix invalid loop for poison_init_mem Jamie Iles
2011-08-03 15:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-08-03 16:44 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]

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