The size argumnet passed into sparse_buffer_alloc() has already aligned with PAGE_SIZE or PMD_SIZE. If the size after aligned is not power of 2 (e.g. 0x480000), the PTR_ALIGN() will return wrong value. Use roundup to round sparsemap_buf up to next multiple of size. Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <Mark-PK.Tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: YJ Chiang <yj.chiang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- mm/sparse.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 2b3b5be85120..dafd130f9a55 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ void * __meminit sparse_buffer_alloc(unsigned long size) void *ptr = NULL; if (sparsemap_buf) { - ptr = PTR_ALIGN(sparsemap_buf, size); + ptr = (void *) roundup((unsigned long)sparsemap_buf, size); if (ptr + size > sparsemap_buf_end) ptr = NULL; else { -- 2.18.0