Re: [PATCH 1/4] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Feb 28 2011 - 03:07:09 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> + new_addr = memblock_alloc(new_log_buf_len, PAGE_SIZE);
> + if (new_addr != MEMBLOCK_ERROR)
> + new_log_buf = __va(new_addr);
> + else
> + new_log_buf = alloc_bootmem(new_log_buf_len);

alloc_bootmem() can fail, especially if someone uses a too large boot parameter
value - and your code does not check for failure.

Thanks,

Ingo
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