Re: [PATCH] kexec: add further check to crashkernel

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 14:24:09 EST


DuanZhenzhong <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When add crashkernel=2M-256M, kernel don't give any warning.
> This is misleading sometimes.

That seems reasonable.

Andrew do you want to carry this one. I don't have a good tree to stash
this in.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/kexec.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index 7b08867..0a6d147 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -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;
> }
> -- 1.7.3
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