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authorWei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>2017-02-22 15:45:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-22 16:41:29 -0800
commit7d41c03e2dc6a650f69655a42c0ddb72a7c121bf (patch)
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mm/memblock.c: check return value of memblock_reserve() in memblock_virt_alloc_internal()
memblock_reserve() would add a new range to memblock.reserved in case
the new range is not totally covered by any of the current
memblock.reserved range.  If the memblock.reserved is full and can't
resize, memblock_reserve() would fail.

This doesn't happen in real world now, I observed this during code
review.  While theoretically, it has the chance to happen.  And if it
happens, others would think this range of memory is still available and
may corrupt the memory.

This patch checks the return value and goto "done" after it succeeds.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482363033-24754-3-git-send-email-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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