Re: [PATCH v2] Fix display of Maximum Memory

[Michael Bringmann]

On 1/15/20 11:53 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Michael Bringmann <mwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Correct overflow problem in calculation+display of Maximum Memory
>> value to syscfg where 32bits is insufficient.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c | 8 ++++----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
>> index e33e8bc..f00411c 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
>> @@ -433,12 +433,12 @@ static void parse_em_data(struct seq_file *m)
>>  
>>  static void maxmem_data(struct seq_file *m)
>>  {
>> -	unsigned long maxmem = 0;
>> +	u64 maxmem = 0;
> 
> This is 64-bit only code, so u64 == unsigned long.
> 
>> -	maxmem += drmem_info->n_lmbs * drmem_info->lmb_size;
>> -	maxmem += hugetlb_total_pages() * PAGE_SIZE;
>> +	maxmem += (u64)drmem_info->n_lmbs * drmem_info->lmb_size;
> 
> The only problem AFAICS is n_lmbs is int and lmb_size is u32, so this
> multiplication will overflow.
> 
>> +	maxmem += (u64)hugetlb_total_pages() * PAGE_SIZE;
> 
> hugetlb_total_pages() already returns unsigned long.
> 
>> -	seq_printf(m, "MaxMem=%ld\n", maxmem);
>> +	seq_printf(m, "MaxMem=%llu\n", maxmem);
>>  }
> 
> This should be sufficient?
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
> index e33e8bc4b69b..38c306551f76 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lparcfg.c
> @@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ static void maxmem_data(struct seq_file *m)
>  {
>         unsigned long maxmem = 0;
>  
> -       maxmem += drmem_info->n_lmbs * drmem_info->lmb_size;
> +       maxmem += (unsigned long)drmem_info->n_lmbs * drmem_info->lmb_size;
>         maxmem += hugetlb_total_pages() * PAGE_SIZE;
>  
> -       seq_printf(m, "MaxMem=%ld\n", maxmem);
> +       seq_printf(m, "MaxMem=%lu\n", maxmem);
>  }
>  
>  static int pseries_lparcfg_data(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> 
> 
> cheers
> 

Trying it out.

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