In case fadump_reserve_mem() fails to reserve memory, the reserve_dump_area_size variable will retain the reserve area size. This will lead to /sys/kernel/fadump/mem_reserved node displaying an incorrect memory reserved by fadump.
To fix this problem, reserve dump area size variable is set to 0 if fadump failed to reserve memory. Fixes: 8255da95e545 ("powerpc/fadump: release all the memory above boot memory size") Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhj...@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.ibm.com> --- Chnages form V1: * Reset the dump area size within the error_out path to cover more failure cases. Furthermore, the commit description has been modified accordingly. --- arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c index f3166acab09b..5a07d0f9c7f0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ int __init fadump_reserve_mem(void) return ret; error_out: fw_dump.fadump_enabled = 0; + fw_dump.reserve_dump_area_size = 0; return 0; } -- 2.41.0