2005-06-23 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org>

* kern/mm.c (grub_free): If the next free block which is being
        merged is the first free block, set the first block to the block
        being freed.
        Reported by Vincent Guffens <guffens@inma.ucl.ac.be>.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-06-23  Yoshinori K. Okuji  <okuji@enbug.org>
+
+	* kern/mm.c (grub_free): If the next free block which is being
+	merged is the first free block, set the first block to the block
+	being freed.
+	Reported by Vincent Guffens <guffens@inma.ucl.ac.be>.
+
 2005-05-08  Hollis Blanchard  <hollis@penguinppc.org>
 
 	* boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c (cmain): Initialize

THANKS

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>
 Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
 Tomas Ebenlendr <ebik@ucw.cz>
 Tsuneyoshi Yasuo <tuneyoshi@naic.co.jp>
+Vincent Guffens <guffens@inma.ucl.ac.be>
 Vincent Pelletier <subdino2004@yahoo.fr>
 
 Also, we thank the projects GNU Automake and LZO. Some code

kern/mm.c

@@ -295,6 +295,9 @@ grub_free (void *ptr)
       
       if (p + p->size == p->next)
 	{
+	  if (p->next == q)
+	    q = p;
+
 	  p->next->magic = 0;
 	  p->size += p->next->size;
 	  p->next = p->next->next;