From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161061AbcA0USE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:18:04 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54871 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965578AbcA0TG4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:06:56 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "H.J. Lu" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Brian Gerst , Denys Vlasenko , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 4.1 011/127] x86/boot: Double BOOT_HEAP_SIZE to 64KB Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:12:55 -0800 Message-Id: <20160127180806.200885148@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 In-Reply-To: <20160127180805.624425994@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160127180805.624425994@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "H.J. Lu" commit 8c31902cffc4d716450be549c66a67a8a3dd479c upstream. When decompressing kernel image during x86 bootup, malloc memory for ELF program headers may run out of heap space, which leads to system halt. This patch doubles BOOT_HEAP_SIZE to 64KB. Tested with 32-bit kernel which failed to boot without this patch. Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/boot.h @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ #define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x400000 #else /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */ -#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x8000 +#define BOOT_HEAP_SIZE 0x10000 #endif /* !CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 */