mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in test_pages_in_a_zone()
test_pages_in_a_zone() does not account for the possibility of missing sections in the given pfn range. pfn_valid_within always returns 1 when CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not set, allowing invalid pfns from missing sections to pass the test, leading to a kernel oops. Wrap an additional pfn loop with PAGES_PER_SECTION granularity to check for missing sections before proceeding into the zone-check code. This also prevents a crash from offlining memory devices with missing sections. Despite this, it may be a good idea to keep the related patch '[PATCH 3/3] drivers: memory: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with missing sections' because missing sections in a memory block may lead to other problems not covered by the scope of this fix. Signed-off-by: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com> Acked-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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