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drivers/base/memory.c: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with missing sections
authorSeth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:40:57 +0000 (13:40 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:15:34 +0000 (10:15 -0800)
commit780635a25cd38a1fc47f0fba533aaa9b8b832ee2
tree13337f2be30164b30f22eea832c04c40a90781ad
parentc25379b5eae0d5f5cb20b64d3ab201b4ab9cf0a8
drivers/base/memory.c: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with missing sections

Commit 072a703ba0a3 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory
x86-64 systems") and 102b5ebcf3cc ("x86, mm: probe memory block size for
generic x86 64bit") introduced large block sizes for x86.  This made it
possible to have multiple sections per memory block where previously,
there was a only every one section per block.

Since blocks consist of contiguous ranges of section, there can be holes
in the blocks where sections are not present.  If one attempts to
offline such a block, a crash occurs since the code is not designed to
deal with this.

This patch is a quick fix to gaurd against the crash by not allowing
blocks with non-present sections to be offlined.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107781

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Reported-by: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/base/memory.c