Hi Simon again,
After a bit more thinking: In theory mmap() could also return NULL.
Therefore the following fix is probably the better one ...
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Subject: [PATCH] kexec: fix mmap return code handling
When mmap fails, MAP_FAILED (that is, (void *) -1) is returned. Currently
we assume that NULL is returned. Fix this and add the MAP_FAILED check.
Fixes: 95741713e790 ("kexec/s390x: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file")
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
index cf6e03d..f0bd527 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec.c
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ static char *slurp_file_generic(const char *filename, off_t *r_size,
buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread);
}
}
- if (!buf)
+ if ((use_mmap && (buf == MAP_FAILED)) || (!use_mmap && (buf == NULL)))
die("Cannot read %s", filename);
if (nread != size)
--
2.3.9
