[patch 26/26] kdump proc vmcore size oveflow fix

From: gregkh
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 20:03:41 EST


From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

A couple of /proc/vmcore data structures overflow with 32bit systems having
memory more than 4G. This patch fixes those.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>


---
fs/proc/vmcore.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/proc_fs.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.1/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ static ssize_t read_vmcore(struct file *
size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos)
{
ssize_t acc = 0, tmp;
- size_t tsz, nr_bytes;
- u64 start;
+ size_t tsz;
+ u64 start, nr_bytes;
struct vmcore *curr_m = NULL;

if (buflen == 0 || *fpos >= vmcore_size)
--- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ linux-2.6.16.1/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct kcore_list {
struct vmcore {
struct list_head list;
unsigned long long paddr;
- unsigned long size;
+ unsigned long long size;
loff_t offset;
};


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