This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: init: Ensure reserved memory regions are not added to bootmem
to the 3.18-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:
mips-init-ensure-reserved-memory-regions-are-not-added-to-bootmem.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 12:16:40 CET 2017
From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:43:44 +0100
Subject: MIPS: init: Ensure reserved memory regions are not added to bootmem
From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e89ef66d7682f031f026eee6bba03c8c2248d2a9 ]
Memories managed through boot_mem_map are generally expected to define
non-crossing areas. However, if part of a larger memory block is marked
as reserved, it would still be added to bootmem allocator as an
available block and could end up being overwritten by the allocator.
Prevent this by explicitly marking the memory as reserved it if exists
in the range used by bootmem allocator.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14608/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -427,6 +427,10 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void)
continue;
default:
/* Not usable memory */
+ if (start > min_low_pfn && end < max_low_pfn)
+ reserve_bootmem(boot_mem_map.map[i].addr,
+ boot_mem_map.map[i].size,
+ BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
continue;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/mips-init-ensure-reserved-memory-regions-are-not-added-to-bootmem.patch