mm/memory_hotplug.c: add a bounds check to __add_pages()

On PowerPC, the address ranges allocated to OpenCAPI LPC memory are
allocated from firmware.  These address ranges may be higher than what
older kernels permit, as we increased the maximum permissable address in
commit 4ffe713b7587 ("powerpc/mm: Increase the max addressable memory to
2PB").  It is possible that the addressable range may change again in
the future.

In this scenario, we end up with a bogus section returned from
__section_nr (see the discussion on the thread "mm: Trigger bug on if a
section is not found in __section_nr").

Adding a check here means that we fail early and have an opportunity to
handle the error gracefully, rather than rumbling on and potentially
accessing an incorrect section.

Further discussion is also on the thread ("powerpc: Perform a bounds
check in arch_add_memory")
  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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