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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5b5e9cb774b --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +#ifndef _ASM_X86_BOOTPARAM_UTILS_H +#define _ASM_X86_BOOTPARAM_UTILS_H + +#include <asm/bootparam.h> + +/* + * This file is included from multiple environments. Do not + * add completing #includes to make it standalone. + */ + +/* + * Deal with bootloaders which fail to initialize unknown fields in + * boot_params to zero. The list fields in this list are taken from + * analysis of kexec-tools; if other broken bootloaders initialize a + * different set of fields we will need to figure out how to disambiguate. + * + */ +static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params) +{ + if (boot_params->sentinel) { + /*fields in boot_params are not valid, clear them */ + memset(&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header, 0, + (char *)&boot_params->alt_mem_k - + (char *)&boot_params->olpc_ofw_header); + memset(&boot_params->kbd_status, 0, + (char *)&boot_params->hdr - + (char *)&boot_params->kbd_status); + memset(&boot_params->_pad7[0], 0, + (char *)&boot_params->edd_mbr_sig_buffer[0] - + (char *)&boot_params->_pad7[0]); + memset(&boot_params->_pad8[0], 0, + (char *)&boot_params->eddbuf[0] - + (char *)&boot_params->_pad8[0]); + memset(&boot_params->_pad9[0], 0, sizeof(boot_params->_pad9)); + } +} + +#endif /* _ASM_X86_BOOTPARAM_UTILS_H */ |