The patch titled Subject: kexec: add further check to crashkernel has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kexec-add-further-check-to-crashkernel.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kexec: add further check to crashkernel When using crashkernel=2M-256M, the kernel doesn't give any warning. This is misleading sometimes. Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kexec.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~kexec-add-further-check-to-crashkernel kernel/kexec.c --- a/kernel/kexec.c~kexec-add-further-check-to-crashkernel +++ a/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1359,6 +1359,10 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_simp if (*cur == '@') *crash_base = memparse(cur+1, &cur); + else if (*cur != ' ' && *cur != '\0') { + pr_warning("crashkernel: unrecognized char\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } return 0; } _ Subject: Subject: kexec: add further check to crashkernel Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch kexec-add-further-check-to-crashkernel.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html