ARM: initrd: disable initrd if passed address overlaps reserved region

Disable the initrd if the passed address already overlaps the reserved
region.  This avoids oopses on Netwinders when NeTTrom tells the kernel
that an initrd is located at mem+4MB, but this overlaps the BSS,
resulting in the kernels in-use BSS being freed.

This should be applied to v2.6.37-stable.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index 5164069..cddd684 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -297,6 +297,12 @@ void __init arm_memblock_init(struct meminfo *mi, struct machine_desc *mdesc)
        memblock_reserve(__pa(_stext), _end - _stext);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
+       if (phys_initrd_size &&
+           memblock_is_region_reserved(phys_initrd_start, phys_initrd_size)) {
+               pr_err("INITRD: 0x%08lx+0x%08lx overlaps in-use memory region - disabling initrd\n",
+                      phys_initrd_start, phys_initrd_size);
+               phys_initrd_start = phys_initrd_size = 0;
+       }
        if (phys_initrd_size) {
                memblock_reserve(phys_initrd_start, phys_initrd_size);