[PATCH] arm64: early_alloc: Fix check for allocation failure
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Nov 23 07:24:36 PST 2015
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 05:45:40PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> In early_alloc we check if the memblock_alloc failed by checking
> the virtual address of the result, which will never fail. This patch
> fixes it to check the actual result for failure.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index e3f563c..e94c32b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -64,8 +64,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(phys_mem_access_prot);
>
> static void __init *early_alloc(unsigned long sz)
> {
> - void *ptr = __va(memblock_alloc(sz, sz));
> - BUG_ON(!ptr);
> + phys_addr_t phys;
> + void *ptr;
> +
> + phys = memblock_alloc(sz, sz);
> + BUG_ON(!phys);
> + ptr = __va(phys);
> memset(ptr, 0, sz);
> return ptr;
Haha, oops! I guess we don't tend to see failures that early on, but the
fix is correct:
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Will
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