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Revision 5f0f2887f4de9508dcf438deab28f1de8070c271 authored by Andrew Banman on 29 December 2015, 22:54:25 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 30 December 2015, 01:45:49 UTC
test_pages_in_a_zone() does not account for the possibility of missing
sections in the given pfn range.  pfn_valid_within always returns 1 when
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not set, allowing invalid pfns from missing
sections to pass the test, leading to a kernel oops.

Wrap an additional pfn loop with PAGES_PER_SECTION granularity to check
for missing sections before proceeding into the zone-check code.

This also prevents a crash from offlining memory devices with missing
sections.  Despite this, it may be a good idea to keep the related patch
'[PATCH 3/3] drivers: memory: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with
missing sections' because missing sections in a memory block may lead to
other problems not covered by the scope of this fix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 5f0f2887f4de9508dcf438deab28f1de8070c271 authored by Andrew Banman on 29 December 2015, 22:54:25 UTC
mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in test_pages_in_a_zone()
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