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* 答复: Re: [PATCH] Fix an overflow in range_to_mtrr func
@ 2012-05-30  1:26 Zhenzhong Duan
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From: Zhenzhong Duan @ 2012-05-30  1:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: yinghai; +Cc: mingo, x86, tglx, joe.jin, linux-kernel, ethan.zhao, hpa


----- yinghai@kernel.org 写道:

> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Zhenzhong Duan
> <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> wrote:
> > When boot x86_64 kernel on sun G5+ with 4T mem, see an overflow in
> mtrr cleanup as below.
> >
> > *BAD*gran_size: 2G      chunk_size: 2G  num_reg: 10     lose cover
> RAM:
> > -18014398505283592M
> >
> > This is because 1<<31 sign extended.
> > Use explicit type conversion to force a 64bit constant to fix it.
> > Useful for mem larger than or equal to 4T.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
> > index ac140c7..853a4c6 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
> > @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ range_to_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long
> range_startk,
> >                if (align > max_align)
> >                        align = max_align;
> >
> > -               sizek = 1 << align;
> > +               sizek = (unsigned long)1 << align;
> 
> how about
> 
>             sizek = 1UL << align;
> 
> 
> >                if (debug_print) {
> >                        char start_factor = 'K', size_factor = 'K';
> >                        unsigned long start_base, size_base;
> > --
> > 1.7.3
> >
Yes, this looks more clean although same compiling result. Should i resend it?

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