From: Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The DNS-323 system has several bogus memory entries in the tag table,
and it caused the system to crash at startup. Ignore tag entries that
are obviously bogus.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index bf56eb3..dfdb469 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -630,7 +630,12 @@ __tagtable(ATAG_CORE, parse_tag_core);
static int __init parse_tag_mem32(const struct tag *tag)
{
- if (meminfo.nr_banks >= NR_BANKS) {
+ /*
+ * Make sure that the memory size is non-zero, page aligned,
+ * and that it doesn't overflow the meminfo table.
+ */
+ if (meminfo.nr_banks >= NR_BANKS || tag->u.mem.size & ~PAGE_MASK ||
+ tag->u.mem.size == 0 || tag->u.mem.start & ~PAGE_MASK) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"Ignoring memory bank 0x%08x size %dKB\n",
tag->u.mem.start, tag->u.mem.size / 1024);
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