linux-kernel - Re: [BUG]memblock: fix overflow of array index

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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:28:19 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [BUG]memblock: fix overflow of array index

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:30:19PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> Fixing the mismatch in signed and unsigned type assignment, which
> potentially can lead to integer overflow bug.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@...il.com>

All indexes in memblock are integers.  Changing that particular one to
unsigned int doesn't fix anything.  I think it just makes things more
confusing.  If there ever are cases w/ more then 2G memblocks, we're
going for 64bit not unsigned.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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