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[PATCH] fixup bogus e820 entry with mem=
authorDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:37 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:37:12 +0000 (17:37 -0800)
commitf014a556e714dfb02502e3be6146a39ca625f33c
tree95c76676a23f8d57731681f5987084f05555af15
parent750deaa4021da1cf9fdb1e20861a10c76fd7f2bc
[PATCH] fixup bogus e820 entry with mem=

This was reported because someone was getting oopses reading /proc/iomem.
It was tracked down to a zero-sized 'struct resource' entry which was
located right at 4GB.

You need two conditions to hit this bug: a BIOS E820_RAM area starting at
exactly the boundary where you specify mem= (to get a zero-sized entry),
and for the legacy_init_iomem_resources() loop to skip that resource (which
only happens at exactly 4G).

I think the killing zero-sized e820 entry is the easiest way to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c