x86: fix alloc_mptable()
authorYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 May 2009 17:07:07 +0000 (10:07 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 11 May 2009 08:35:07 +0000 (10:35 +0200)
Fix the conditions when we stop updating the mptable due to
running out of slots.

[ Impact: fix memory corruption / non-working update_mptable boot parameter ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A01C3BB.1000609@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c

index 70fd7e414c1544aadf5de5573e67294e88cac16c..cd2a41a7c45c3a056ba69bbbd721bd598335352e 100644 (file)
@@ -870,24 +870,17 @@ static
 inline void __init check_irq_src(struct mpc_intsrc *m, int *nr_m_spare) {}
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC */
 
-static int check_slot(unsigned long mpc_new_phys, unsigned long mpc_new_length,
-                     int count)
+static int
+check_slot(unsigned long mpc_new_phys, unsigned long mpc_new_length, int count)
 {
-       if (!mpc_new_phys) {
-               pr_info("No spare slots, try to append...take your risk, "
-                       "new mpc_length %x\n", count);
-       } else {
-               if (count <= mpc_new_length)
-                       pr_info("No spare slots, try to append..., "
-                               "new mpc_length %x\n", count);
-               else {
-                       pr_err("mpc_new_length %lx is too small\n",
-                               mpc_new_length);
-                       return -1;
-               }
+       int ret = 0;
+
+       if (!mpc_new_phys || count <= mpc_new_length) {
+               WARN(1, "update_mptable: No spare slots (length: %x)\n", count);
+               return -1;
        }
 
-       return 0;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static int  __init replace_intsrc_all(struct mpc_table *mpc,
@@ -946,7 +939,7 @@ static int  __init replace_intsrc_all(struct mpc_table *mpc,
                } else {
                        struct mpc_intsrc *m = (struct mpc_intsrc *)mpt;
                        count += sizeof(struct mpc_intsrc);
-                       if (!check_slot(mpc_new_phys, mpc_new_length, count))
+                       if (check_slot(mpc_new_phys, mpc_new_length, count) < 0)
                                goto out;
                        assign_to_mpc_intsrc(&mp_irqs[i], m);
                        mpc->length = count;