[PATCH] kdump: don't call __ioremap() for pfn = 0

[Sachin P. Sant]

Hi

While using dd command to retrive the dump from /dev/oldmem, there comes
a rare case where pfn value is zero. In this case the __ioremap() call 
returns
NULL and hence copying fails.

# dd if=/dev/oldmem of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/oldmem': Bad address
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000121 seconds, 0.0 kB/s

Attached is a patch to fix this problem. During such rare cases don't call
__ioremap() to do the address translation, instead use __va() .

Tested with 2.6.18.

Thanks
-Sachin
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