pte_pfn() returns a PFN of long (32 bits in 32-PAE), then
"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).
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <de...@microsoft.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index ae242a7..36de293 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ 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);
--
1.9.1
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