Re: [PATCH v2] Fix display of Maximum Memory

Michael Bringmann [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.

quoted

-	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.

quoted

+	maxmem += (u64)hugetlb_total_pages() * PAGE_SIZE;

hugetlb_total_pages() already returns unsigned long.

quoted

-	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