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Steven Price 5d59aa8f9c initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd
Since commit 54c7a8916a ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening
/initrd.image fails"), the kernel has unconditionally attempted to free
the initrd even if it doesn't exist.

In the non-existent case this causes a boot-time splat if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled due to a call to virt_to_phys() with a
NULL address.

Instead we should check that the initrd actually exists and only attempt
to free it if it does.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516143125.48948-1-steven.price@arm.com
Fixes: 54c7a8916a ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails")
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
block for-5.2/block-post-20190516 2019-05-16 19:08:15 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2019-05-07 22:03:58 -07:00
drivers s390 updates for the 5.2 merge window #2 2019-05-17 10:08:59 -07:00
fs fs/writeback.c: use rcu_barrier() to wait for inflight wb switches going into workqueue when umount 2019-05-18 15:52:26 -07:00
include mm/vmalloc.c: keep track of free blocks for vmap allocation 2019-05-18 15:52:26 -07:00
init initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd 2019-05-18 15:52:26 -07:00
ipc ipc: do cyclic id allocation for the ipc object. 2019-05-14 19:52:52 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-5.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2019-05-16 19:01:23 -07:00
lib slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
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sound One more patch to remove io.h from clk-provider.h. We used to need this 2019-05-16 19:05:35 -07:00
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usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt * ARM: support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests, PMU improvements 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS nds32 patches for 5.2-rc1 2019-05-17 10:17:29 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.2 2019-05-08 12:25:12 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.