Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1273944] Re: multiboot header has 0 in mem_upper field

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Chubb <address@hidden> writes:
This change fixes it.

> diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> index 2435d9e..b387d28 100644
> --- a/exec.c
> +++ b/exec.c
> @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block,
>          }
> 
>          /* MAP_POPULATE silently ignores failures */
> -        for (i = 0; i < (memory/hpagesize); i++) {
> +        for (i = 0; i < (memory/hpagesize)-1; i++) {
>              memset(area + (hpagesize*i), 0, 1);
>          }

I don't know why this fixes the issue.  Hence, no signed-off-by line, etc.

My guess is that the memset zeros something it shouldn't off the end of
the array (but that doesn't make sense to me!)

Peter C
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