[RESEND PATCH 2/2] ARM: kexec: Check segment memory addresses

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:09:00PM +0100, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:32:26PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Interesting, it sounds like kexec thinks that you don't have contiguous
> > memory from 0x80008000 to 0x803ad000. Can you provide some more information
> > about your physical memory map please?
> 
> Well, I think it's because the patch is wrong. Shouldn't it be:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index e29c333..a80192e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
>  
>  		err = memblock_is_region_memory(current_segment->mem,
>  						current_segment->memsz);
> -		if (err)
> +		if (!err)
>  			return - EINVAL;
>  
>  		err = get_user(header, (__be32*)current_segment->buf);

Oops, that's a howler! Thanks for spotting it. We should probably reflow the
code a bit because !err sounds like everything should be ok.

Fancy reworking the patch or do you want me to take care of this?

Cheers,

Will