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Message-Id: <20150114115342.70FB.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:53:42 +0900
From:	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: mm: fix size rounding-down of arm_add_memory() function

Hello Russell King,

Could you apply this patch for arm_add_memory() fix, please ?


Thanks,
Masahiro Yamada


On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:09:32 +0100
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:

> On 22 December 2014 at 04:17, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com> wrote:
> > The current rounding of "size" is wrong:
> >
> >  - If "start" is sufficiently near the next page boundary, "size"
> >    is decremented by more than enough and the last page is lost.
> >
> >  - If "size" is sufficiently small, it is wrapped around and gets
> >    a bogus value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com>
> > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> 
> 
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> >  - Avoid wrap around of "size"
> >
> >  arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 7 +++++--
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> > index f9c8639..d13f185 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> > @@ -657,10 +657,13 @@ int __init arm_add_memory(u64 start, u64 size)
> >
> >         /*
> >          * Ensure that start/size are aligned to a page boundary.
> > -        * Size is appropriately rounded down, start is rounded up.
> > +        * Size is rounded down, start is rounded up.
> >          */
> > -       size -= start & ~PAGE_MASK;
> >         aligned_start = PAGE_ALIGN(start);
> > +       if (aligned_start > start + size)
> > +               size = 0;
> > +       else
> > +               size -= aligned_start - start;
> >
> >  #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> >         if (aligned_start > ULONG_MAX) {
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
> 
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