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* [PATCH] x86/xen: panic on bad Xen-provided memory map
@ 2014-10-17  3:48 Martin Kelly
  2014-10-17 12:46 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Martin Kelly @ 2014-10-17  3:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: david.vrabel, xen-devel, x86, linux-kernel
  Cc: konrad.wilk, boris.ostrovsky, tglx, mingo, Martin Kelly,
	Martin Kelly

Panic if Xen provides a memory map with 0 entries. Although this is
unlikely, it is better to catch the error at the point of seeing the map
than later on as a symptom of some other crash.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kelly <martkell@amazon.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index af72161..29834b3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -595,6 +595,7 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
 		rc = 0;
 	}
 	BUG_ON(rc);
+	BUG_ON(memmap.nr_entries == 0);
 
 	/*
 	 * Xen won't allow a 1:1 mapping to be created to UNUSABLE
-- 
2.1.1


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* Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/xen: panic on bad Xen-provided memory map
  2014-10-17  3:48 [PATCH] x86/xen: panic on bad Xen-provided memory map Martin Kelly
@ 2014-10-17 12:46 ` David Vrabel
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Vrabel @ 2014-10-17 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Martin Kelly, david.vrabel, xen-devel, x86, linux-kernel
  Cc: mingo, Martin Kelly, boris.ostrovsky, tglx

On 17/10/14 04:48, Martin Kelly wrote:
> Panic if Xen provides a memory map with 0 entries. Although this is
> unlikely, it is better to catch the error at the point of seeing the map
> than later on as a symptom of some other crash.

Applied, thanks.

David

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