Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 5 authors, 2020-01-29

Re: [PATCH v2] Fix display of Maximum Memory

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2020-01-16 05:53:55
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds

Michael Bringmann [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Correct overflow problem in calculation+display of Maximum Memory
value to syscfg where 32bits is insufficient.

Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <redacted>
---
 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
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