[PATCH 0/2] fix a kernel oops in reading sysfs valid_zones

[Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>]

A sysfs memory file is created for each 128MiB or 2GiB of a memory
block on x86. [1]  When the start address of a memory block is not
backed by struct page, i.e. memory range is not aligned by the memory
block size, reading its valid_zones attribute file leads to a kernel
oops.  This patch-set fixes this issue.

Patch 1 first fixes an issue in test_pages_in_a_zone() that it does
not test the start section.

Patch 2 then fixes the kernel oops by extending test_pages_in_a_zone()
to return valid [start, end).

[1] 2GB when the system has 64GB or larger memory.

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Toshi Kani (2):
 1/2 mm/memory_hotplug.c: check start_pfn in test_pages_in_a_zone() 
 2/2 base/memory, hotplug: fix a kernel oops in show_valid_zones()

---
 drivers/base/memory.c          | 12 ++++++------
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |  3 ++-
 mm/memory_hotplug.c            | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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