From 27356f54c8c32609ff45b4ed333bb64fb2eef374 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Toshi Kani Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:21:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/hotplug: verify hotplug memory range add_memory() and remove_memory() can only handle a memory range aligned with section. There are problems when an unaligned range is added and then deleted as follows: - add_memory() with an unaligned range succeeds, but __add_pages() called from add_memory() adds a whole section of pages even though a given memory range is less than the section size. - remove_memory() to the added unaligned range hits BUG_ON() in __remove_pages(). This patch changes add_memory() and remove_memory() to check if a given memory range is aligned with section at the beginning. As the result, add_memory() fails with -EINVAL when a given range is unaligned, and does not add such memory range. This prevents remove_memory() to be called with an unaligned range as well. Note that remove_memory() has to use BUG_ON() since this function cannot fail. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid printk warnings] Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Tang Chen Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed