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Message-Id: <20130107132341.c8ca0060.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:23:41 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Lin Feng <linfeng@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: tj@...nel.org, mingo@...nel.org, yinghai@...nel.org,
liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
tangchen@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memblock: fix wrong memmove size in
memblock_merge_regions()
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:41:36 +0800
Lin Feng <linfeng@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> The memmove span covers from (next+1) to the end of the array, and the index
> of next is (i+1), so the index of (next+1) is (i+2). So the size of remaining
> array elements is (type->cnt - (i + 2)).
What are the user-visible effects of this bug?
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ static void __init_memblock memblock_merge_regions(struct memblock_type *type)
> }
>
> this->size += next->size;
> - memmove(next, next + 1, (type->cnt - (i + 1)) * sizeof(*next));
> + /* move forward from next + 1, index of which is i + 2 */
> + memmove(next, next + 1, (type->cnt - (i + 2)) * sizeof(*next));
> type->cnt--;
> }
> }
> --
> 1.7.11.7
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