[PATCH] kexec: fix mmap return code handling
Michael Holzheu
holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 25 04:47:41 PST 2015
Hi Simon,
I made a mistake in my mmap patch, sorry for that!
When mmap fails, MAP_FAILED (that is, (void *) -1) is returned. Currently
we assume that NULL is returned. Fix this and add the MAP_FAILED check.
Fixes: 95741713e790 ("kexec/s390x: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file")
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kexec/kexec.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
index cf6e03d..02285fb 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.c
+++ b/kexec/kexec.c
@@ -568,6 +568,8 @@ static char *slurp_file_generic(const char *filename, off_t *r_size,
if (use_mmap) {
buf = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
+ if (buf == MAP_FAILED)
+ buf = NULL;
nread = size;
} else {
buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread);
--
2.3.9
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