240-ioremap-null-ptr-test.patch
Under highly unusual circumstances, a buggy driver will ask a null ptr to be
ioremapped, an operation that curently suceeds but leads to later trouble.
Instead, refuse to remap the null pointer.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
--
Index: linux-2.6.14-git3/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-git3.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c 2005-11-02 14:59:56.507624778 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.14-git3/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_64.c 2005-11-02 15:01:04.284115774 -0600
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
pa = addr & PAGE_MASK;
size = PAGE_ALIGN(addr + size) - pa;
- if (size == 0)
+ if ((size == 0) || (pa == 0))
return NULL;
if (mem_init_done) {
-
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