kexec: add further check to crashkernel
authorZhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:42:47 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:14:36 +0000 (17:14 -0700)
When using crashkernel=2M-256M, the kernel doesn't give any warning.  This
is misleading sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kexec.c

index 769e347..3288c9b 100644 (file)
@@ -1359,6 +1359,10 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_simple(char          *cmdline,
 
        if (*cur == '@')
                *crash_base = memparse(cur+1, &cur);
+       else if (*cur != ' ' && *cur != '\0') {
+               pr_warning("crashkernel: unrecognized char\n");
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
 
        return 0;
 }