Patch "ACPI: Fix wrong parameter passed to memblock_reserve" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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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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