[PATCH 3/6] kexec: clear crashk_res if all its memory has been released

[Baoquan He]

On 05/27/23 at 08:34pm, Zhen Lei wrote:
> If the resource of crashk_res has been released, it is better to clear
> crashk_res.start and crashk_res.end. Because 'end = start - 1' is not
> reasonable, and in some places the test is based on crashk_res.end, not
> resource_size(&crashk_res).

This looks reasonable, at least I haven't think of any risk it could
bring. Thanks.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen at huawei.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec_core.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> index d1ab139dd49035e..bcc86a250ab3bf9 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> @@ -1137,15 +1137,18 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
>  	end = start + new_size;
>  	crash_free_reserved_phys_range(end, crashk_res.end);
>  
> -	if (start == end)
> -		release_resource(&crashk_res);
> -
>  	ram_res->start = end;
>  	ram_res->end = crashk_res.end;
>  	ram_res->flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM;
>  	ram_res->name = "System RAM";
>  
> -	crashk_res.end = end - 1;
> +	if (start == end) {
> +		release_resource(&crashk_res);
> +		crashk_res.start = 0;
> +		crashk_res.end = 0;
> +	} else {
> +		crashk_res.end = end - 1;
> +	}
>  
>  	insert_resource(&iomem_resource, ram_res);
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>