From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
Michael Wang <yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, olaf@aepfle.de,
apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
riel@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 008/216] x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:14:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1573cbad-29cd-f34e-a005-1a6906a4cd4e@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1543404768-89470-8-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Hi, All,
Please ignore this stupid email thread. I thought I had suppressed cc in gitconfig. But I am wrong...
Very very sorry!
Thanks
Alex
On 2018/11/28 7:29 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
>
> commit d1cd1210834649ce1ca6bafe5ac25d2f40331343 upstream.
>
> pte_pfn() returns a PFN of long (32 bits in 32-PAE), so "long <<
> PAGE_SHIFT" will overflow for PFNs above 4GB.
>
> Due to this issue, some Linux 32-PAE distros, running as guests on Hyper-V,
> with 5GB memory assigned, can't load the netvsc driver successfully and
> hence the synthetic network device can't work (we can use the kernel parameter
> mem=3000M to work around the issue).
>
> Cast pte_pfn() to phys_addr_t before shifting.
>
> Fixes: "commit d76565344512: x86, mm: Create slow_virt_to_phys()"
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: olaf@aepfle.de
> Cc: apw@canonical.com
> Cc: jasowang@redhat.com
> Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
> Cc: riel@redhat.com
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414580017-27444-1-git-send-email-decui@microsoft.com
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> 7u/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/7u/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/7u/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> index 4ed2b2d..81b82f4 100644
> --- a/7u/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/7u/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ phys_addr_t slow_virt_to_phys(void *__virt_addr)
> psize = page_level_size(level);
> pmask = page_level_mask(level);
> offset = virt_addr & ~pmask;
> - phys_addr = pte_pfn(*pte) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> + phys_addr = (phys_addr_t)pte_pfn(*pte) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> return (phys_addr | offset);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(slow_virt_to_phys);
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