From eaa3be6add6f327ab0a633e4fee8e6f2cc8c8a4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:42:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] kexec: add further check to crashkernel
When using crashkernel=2M-256M, the kernel doesn't give any warning. This
is misleading sometimes.
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
kernel/kexec.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 769e347c5196..3288c9b29bae 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1359,6 +1359,10 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_simple(char *cmdline,
if (*cur == '@')
*crash_base = memparse(cur+1, &cur);
+ else if (*cur != ' ' && *cur != '\0') {
+ pr_warning("crashkernel: unrecognized char\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
return 0;
}