From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kexec-tools, ppc64: Fix segfault parsing DR memory property
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:22:27 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100519002227.GC8536@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23148.1274139032@neuling.org>
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:30:32AM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>
>
> In message <4BECBE89.3020108@ozlabs.org> you wrote:
> > add_dyn_reconf_usable_mem_property() iterates over memory spans
> > in /ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory/ibm,dynamic-memory and intersects
> > these with usablemem_rgns ranges. In doing so it used an unchecked
> > fixed-size array which will overrun on machines with lots of LMBs.
> >
> > This patch removes the fixed-sized arrays from
> > add_dyn_reconf_usable_mem_property() and add_usable_mem_property(), in lieu o
> f
> > malloc/realloc/free.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
>
> So this works our large P7 machine unlike the last one.
>
> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Thanks, applied
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-14 3:07 [PATCH v2] kexec-tools, ppc64: Fix segfault parsing DR memory property Matt Evans
2010-05-17 23:30 ` Michael Neuling
2010-05-19 0:22 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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