[bug #18471] [PATCH] Grub overwrites reserved memory region when reading initrd file

[Beverly Brown]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18471>

                 Summary: [PATCH] Grub overwrites reserved memory region when
reading initrd file
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: bbrown_gnu
            Submitted on: Wednesday 12/06/2006 at 16:14
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Beverly Brown
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 0.93
         Reproducibility: None
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

When grub reads in an initrd that is larger than ~13MB, it overwrites a
memory region that is reserved by the system BIOS in some systems.

The original load_initrd function in grub was reading in the initrd file
without regard to where memory holes in the memory map may be. Then it
determined where it needed to be in order to pass it on to Linux and copied
it there.

The overwrite was happening during the initial read, so I removed that step.
The function now determines where the initrd code needs to be and puts it
there without the initial read. It no longer overwrites the memory region
reserved by the BIOS.

The patch is attached.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Wednesday 12/06/2006 at 16:14  Name: grub-0.93-initrd_nocopy.patch 
Size: 2kB   By: bbrown_gnu

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=11462>

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