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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: [patch] Potential inf.loop in bootmem.c ...
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If __alloc_bootmem_core() fails with a goal and unaligned node_boot_start
it'll loop fovever.



- Davide



--- linux-2.5.73/mm/bootmem.c.orig	2003-07-02 14:55:47.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.5.73/mm/bootmem.c	2003-07-02 15:31:44.000000000 -0700
@@ -202,7 +201,7 @@
 		;
 	}

-	if (preferred) {
+	if (preferred > offset) {
 		preferred = offset;
 		goto restart_scan;
 	}