Re: [Bug 11046] New: Kernel bug in mm/bootmem.c on Sparc machines

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:38:36 -0700

> So if we're going to change it in 2.6.26, we'll need a separate patch.

Here is the 2.6.26 version:

bootmem: Allow zero length reserve and free.

It's either this or all the call sites explicitly check
when such a case is possible and sometimes expected.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index 8d9f60e..e540f7a 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ static void __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata,
 	unsigned long sidx, eidx;
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	BUG_ON(!size);
+	if (!size)
+		return;
 
 	/* out of range */
 	if (addr + size < bdata->node_boot_start ||
@@ -187,7 +188,8 @@ static void __init free_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata, unsigned long addr,
 	unsigned long sidx, eidx;
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	BUG_ON(!size);
+	if (!size)
+		return;
 
 	/* out range */
 	if (addr + size < bdata->node_boot_start ||