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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	jerry_hoemann@hp.com, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>, x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] x86/setup/crash: Check memblock_reserve() retval
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:20:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444897231-7906-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444897231-7906-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: jerry_hoemann@hp.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file 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);
-- 
2.3.5


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15  8:20 [PATCH 0/5] x86/setup/crash: Cleanup some code Borislav Petkov
2015-10-15  8:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/setup: Cleanup crashkernel reservation functions Borislav Petkov
2015-10-15  8:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/setup/crash: Remove alignment variable Borislav Petkov
2015-10-15  8:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/setup/crash: Cleanup some more Borislav Petkov
2015-10-15  8:20 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-10-15  9:18   ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/setup/crash: Check memblock_reserve() retval Dave Young
2015-10-15 10:03     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-10-15  8:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] kexec/crash: Say which char is the unrecognized Borislav Petkov
2015-10-15  9:14 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86/setup/crash: Cleanup some code Dave Young
2015-10-15 15:33 ` Joerg Roedel

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