linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long in outercache hooks

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

Date:   Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:31:50 +0800
From:   "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
CC:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long
 in outercache hooks



On 2020/12/26 20:15, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:18:08AM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>> On 2020/12/25 19:44, Zhen Lei wrote:
>>> The outercache of some Hisilicon SOCs support physical addresses wider
>>> than 32-bits. The unsigned long datatype is not sufficient for mapping
>>> physical addresses >= 4GB. The commit ad6b9c9d78b9 ("ARM: 6671/1: LPAE:
>>> use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long in outercache functions") has
>>> already modified the outercache functions. But the parameters of the
>>> outercache hooks are not changed. This patch use phys_addr_t instead of
>>> unsigned long in outercache hooks: inv_range, clean_range, flush_range.
>>>
>>> To ensure the outercache that does not support LPAE works properly, do
>>> cast phys_addr_t to unsigned long by adding a middle-tier function.
>>
>> This patch will impact the outercache drivers that have not been merged into
>> the kernel. They should also update the datatype of the outercache hooks.
> 
> This isn't much of a concern to mainline. If it's that big a problem
> for you, then please consider merging your code into mainline so that
> everyone can benefit from it.

All right, I got it.

>