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[PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity

From: Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-29 12:39:48
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

On 26 February 2016 at 17:57, Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref] wrote:
Commit c031a4213c11 ("arm64: kaslr: randomize the linear region")
implements randomization of the linear region, by subtracting a random
multiple of PUD_SIZE from memstart_addr. This causes the virtual mapping
of system RAM to move upwards in the linear region, and at the same time
causes memstart_addr to assume a value which may be negative if the offset
of system RAM in the physical space is smaller than its offset relative to
PAGE_OFFSET in the virtual space.

Since memstart_addr is effectively an offset now, redefine its type as s64
so that expressions involving shifting or division preserve its sign.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>

FYI this results in a warning, please fold
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 67ce440cb702..9cfe94b41b54 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
  * linear mapping. Take care not to clip the kernel which may be
  * high in memory.
  */
- memblock_remove(max(memstart_addr + linear_region_size, __pa(_end)),
+ memblock_remove(max_t(u64, memstart_addr + linear_region_size, __pa(_end)),
  ULLONG_MAX);
  if (memblock_end_of_DRAM() > linear_region_size)
  memblock_remove(0, memblock_end_of_DRAM() - linear_region_size);

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c            | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index 5f8667a99e41..12f8a00fb3f1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/mmdebug.h>

-extern phys_addr_t             memstart_addr;
+extern s64                     memstart_addr;
 /* PHYS_OFFSET - the physical address of the start of memory. */
 #define PHYS_OFFSET            ({ VM_BUG_ON(memstart_addr & 1); memstart_addr; })
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 4ea7efc28e65..a2977d33e0dc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
  * executes, which assigns it its actual value. So use a default value
  * that cannot be mistaken for a real physical address.
  */
-phys_addr_t memstart_addr __read_mostly = ~0ULL;
+s64 memstart_addr __read_mostly = -1;
 phys_addr_t arm64_dma_phys_limit __read_mostly;

 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
--
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