[PATCH] enable booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory

When booting a NUMA system with nodes that have no memory (eg by limiting
memory), bootmem_alloc_core tried to find pages in an uninitialized
bootmem_map.  This caused a null pointer access.  This fix adds a check, so
that NULL is returned.  That will enable the caller (bootmem_alloc_nopanic)
to alloc memory on other without a panic.

Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index d53112fcb404..94253428f091 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ __alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata, unsigned long size,
         if (limit && bdata->node_boot_start >= limit)
                 return NULL;
 
+        /* on nodes without memory - bootmem_map is NULL */
+        if (!bdata->node_bootmem_map)
+                return NULL;
+
         end_pfn = bdata->node_low_pfn;
         limit = PFN_DOWN(limit);
         if (limit && end_pfn > limit)