[PATCH] riscv: Fix a number of free'd resources in init_resources()

[Sunil V L]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 07:54:50PM +0200, Petr Pavlu wrote:
> Function init_resources() allocates a boot memory block to hold an array of
> resources which it adds to iomem_resource. The array is filled in from its
> end and the function then attempts to free any unused memory at the
> beginning. The problem is that size of the unused memory is incorrectly
> calculated and this can result in releasing memory which is in use by
> active resources. Their data then gets corrupted later when the memory is
> reused by a different part of the system.
> 
> Fix the size of the released memory to correctly match the number of unused
> resource entries.
> 
> Fixes: ffe0e5261268 ("RISC-V: Improve init_resources()")
> Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu at suse.com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
> index 18bd0e4bc36c..120b2f6f71bc 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ static void __init init_resources(void)
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Clean-up any unused pre-allocated resources */
> -	mem_res_sz = (num_resources - res_idx + 1) * sizeof(*mem_res);
> -	memblock_free(__pa(mem_res), mem_res_sz);
> +	if (res_idx >= 0)
> +		memblock_free(__pa(mem_res), (res_idx + 1) * sizeof(*mem_res));
>  	return;
>  
>   error:
I encountered this corruption and your patch came in time. 

Thank you very much!

Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl at ventanamicro.com>
Tested-by: Sunil V L <sunilvl at ventanamicro.com>

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