Il 02/09/2014 18:13, Laurent Dufour ha scritto:
> fc95ca7284bc54953165cba76c3228bd2cdb9591 introduces a memset in
> kvmppc_alloc_hpt since the general CMA doesn't clear the memory it
> allocates.
>
> However, the size argument passed to memset is computed from a signed value
> and its signed bit is extended by the cast the compiler is doing. This lead
> to extremely large size value when dealing with order value >= 31, and
> almost all the memory following the allocated space is cleaned. As a
> consequence, the system is panicing and may even fail spawning the kdump
> kernel.
>
> This fix makes use of an unsigned value for the memset's size argument to
> avoid sign extension. Among this fix, another shift operation which may
> lead to signed extended value too is also fixed.
>
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <lduf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
> index 72c20bb16d26..79294c4c5015 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
> @@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ long kvmppc_alloc_hpt(struct kvm *kvm, u32 *htab_orderp)
> }
>
> kvm->arch.hpt_cma_alloc = 0;
> - page = kvm_alloc_hpt(1 << (order - PAGE_SHIFT));
> + page = kvm_alloc_hpt(1ul << (order - PAGE_SHIFT));
> if (page) {
> hpt = (unsigned long)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page));
> - memset((void *)hpt, 0, (1 << order));
> + memset((void *)hpt, 0, (1ul << order));
> kvm->arch.hpt_cma_alloc = 1;
> }
>
>
Thanks, applied to kvm/master.
Paolo
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