This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPI: Fix wrong parameter passed to memblock_reserve
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
acpi-fix-wrong-parameter-passed-to-memblock_reserve.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a6432ded299726f123b93d0132fead200551535c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:19:19 +0200
Subject: ACPI: Fix wrong parameter passed to memblock_reserve
From: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>
commit a6432ded299726f123b93d0132fead200551535c upstream.
Commit 53aac44 (ACPI: Store valid ACPI tables passed via early initrd
in reserved memblock areas) introduced acpi_initrd_override() that
passes a wrong value as the second argument to memblock_reserve().
Namely, the second argument of memblock_reserve() is the size of the
region, not the address of the top of it, so make
acpi_initrd_override() pass the size in there as appropriate.
[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/osl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ void __init acpi_initrd_override(void *d
* Both memblock_reserve and e820_add_region (via arch_reserve_mem_area)
* works fine.
*/
- memblock_reserve(acpi_tables_addr, acpi_tables_addr + all_tables_size);
+ memblock_reserve(acpi_tables_addr, all_tables_size);
arch_reserve_mem_area(acpi_tables_addr, all_tables_size);
p = early_ioremap(acpi_tables_addr, all_tables_size);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from udknight@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/acpi-fix-wrong-parameter-passed-to-memblock_reserve.patch
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