linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: CPPC: Avoid overflow when calculating desired

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:54:14 -0600
From:   Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com>
To:     Hoan Tran <hotran@....com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Prashanth Prakash <pprakash@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Loc Ho <lho@....com>, Duc Dang <dhdang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: CPPC: Avoid overflow when calculating
 desired_perf

On 09/14/2016 09:06 PM, Hoan Tran wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 04:08:28 PM Hoan Tran wrote:
>>> This patch fixes overflow issue when calculating the desired_perf.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@....com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
>>> index 894e465..3e0961e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
>>> @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ static int cppc_cpufreq_set_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>>>
>>>       cpu = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];
>>>
>>> -     cpu->perf_ctrls.desired_perf = target_freq * policy->max / cppc_dmi_max_khz;
>>> +     cpu->perf_ctrls.desired_perf =
>>> +             (u64)target_freq * policy->max / cppc_dmi_max_khz;
>>>       freqs.old = policy->cur;
>>>       freqs.new = target_freq;
>>
>> That's on top of the CPPC material in linux-next I gather?
> 
> Yes, it's on TOP of linux-next.
> 
>>
>> Which commit does it fix?
> 
> This is a fix for ad38677df44b67e0f5b6c4d31e9c2734abde8ed9 (cpufreq:
> CPPC: Force reporting values in KHz to fix user space interface)
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c?id=ad38677df44b67e0f5b6c4d31e9c2734abde8ed9
> 
> Thanks
> Hoan
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rafael
>>

Nice catch, Hoan.  Thanks!

-- 
ciao,
al
-----------------------------------
Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@...hat.com
-----------------------------------