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Commit e7706fc6 authored by Ken'ichi Ohmichi's avatar Ken'ichi Ohmichi Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86, kdump: fix invalid access on i386 sparsemem



Impact: fix kdump crash on 32-bit sparsemem kernels

Since linux-2.6.27, kdump has failed on i386 sparsemem kernel.
1st-kernel gets a panic just before switching to 2nd-kernel.

The cause is that a kernel accesses invalid mem_section by
page_to_pfn(image->swap_page) at machine_kexec().
image->swap_page is allocated if kexec for hibernation, but
it is not allocated if kdump. So if kdump, a kernel should
not access the mem_section corresponding to image->swap_page.

The attached patch fixes this invalid access.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKen'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: kexec-ml <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 1281675e
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