Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] pstore/ram: Fix crash when setting number of cpus to an odd number

["Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>]

On 23/02/2023 23:36, Weichen Chen wrote:
> When the number of cpu cores is adjusted to 7 or other odd numbers,
> the zone size will become an odd number.
> The address of the zone will become:
>     addr of zone0 = BASE
>     addr of zone1 = BASE + zone_size
>     addr of zone2 = BASE + zone_size*2
>     ...
> The address of zone1/3/5/7 will be mapped to non-alignment va.
> Eventually crashes will occur when accessing these va.
> 
> So, use ALIGN_DOWN() to make sure the zone size is even
> to avoid this bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Weichen Chen <weichen.chen@mediatek.com>
> ---
>  fs/pstore/ram.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index ade66dbe5f39..fc57ac97e506 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ static int ramoops_init_przs(const char *name,
>  	}
>  
>  	zone_sz = mem_sz / *cnt;
> +	zone_sz = ALIGN_DOWN(zone_sz, 2);
>  	if (!zone_sz) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "%s zone size == 0\n", name);
>  		goto fail;

Thanks for resending! Feel free to add my:

Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>

Cheers,


Guilherme