linux/arch
Andreas Herrmann 40823f737e x86: memtest: reuse test patterns when memtest parameter exceeds number of available patterns
Impact: fix unexpected behaviour when pattern number is out of range

Current implementation provides 4 patterns for memtest. The code doesn't
check whether the memtest parameter value exceeds the maximum pattern number.

Instead the memtest code pretends to test with non-existing patterns, e.g.
when booting with memtest=10 I've observed the following

  ...
  early_memtest: pattern num 10
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 0
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 1
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 2
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 3
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 4
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 5
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 6
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 7
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 8
  ...
  0000001000 - 0000006000 pattern 9
  ...

But in fact Linux didn't test anything for patterns > 4 as the default
case in memtest() is to leave the function.

I suggest to use the memtest parameter as the number of tests to be
performed and to re-iterate over all existing patterns.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 12:19:44 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
arm Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
blackfin Merge branch 'core/header-fixes' into x86/headers 2009-02-13 21:05:03 +01:00
cris Merge branch 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2009-01-14 19:58:40 -08:00
frv FRV: in_interrupt() requires #inclusion of linux/hardirq.h not asm/hardirq.h now 2009-02-09 08:51:35 -08:00
h8300 headers_check fix: h8300, swab.h 2009-02-01 11:01:24 +05:30
ia64 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
m32r eeprom: More consistent symbol names 2009-01-26 21:19:57 +01:00
m68k m68k: atari - Rename "mfp" to "st_mfp" 2009-02-22 09:23:02 -08:00
m68knommu m68knommu: fix 5329 ColdFire periphal addressing 2009-01-27 16:42:03 +10:00
mips Merge branch 'core/header-fixes' into x86/headers 2009-02-13 21:05:03 +01:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
parisc Merge branch 'core/header-fixes' into x86/headers 2009-02-13 21:05:03 +01:00
powerpc Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-22 20:05:19 +01:00
s390 [S390] fix "mem=" handling in case of standby memory 2009-02-19 15:19:19 +01:00
sh sh: Fix up T-bit error handling in SH-4A mutex fastpath. 2009-01-29 11:56:03 +09:00
sparc Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
um uml: fix vde network backend in user mode linux 2009-02-20 17:57:48 -08:00
x86 x86: memtest: reuse test patterns when memtest parameter exceeds number of available patterns 2009-02-25 12:19:44 +01:00
xtensa headers_check fix: xtensa, swab.h 2009-02-01 11:01:30 +05:30
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Kconfig [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper infrastructure 2009-01-14 14:15:16 +01:00