Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" param

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/04/2011 12:19 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> All he looks at is when the value returned is zero.  It wouldn't be zero
>> for any actual value, including mem=32M.
>>
> 
> when user pass wrong parameter like less 128M, kernel will not boot either.
> Do we need to sanity check for that?
> 

We could check for the value being smaller than the relocated value of
_end.  That is probably the smallest *fixed* value we can assign.

	-hpa

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