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Commit d1cd1210 authored by Dexuan Cui's avatar Dexuan Cui Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE



pte_pfn() returns a PFN of long (32 bits in 32-PAE), so "long <<
PAGE_SHIFT" will overflow for PFNs above 4GB.

Due to this issue, some Linux 32-PAE distros, running as guests on Hyper-V,
with 5GB memory assigned, can't load the netvsc driver successfully and
hence the synthetic network device can't work (we can use the kernel parameter
mem=3000M to work around the issue).

Cast pte_pfn() to phys_addr_t before shifting.

Fixes: "commit d7656534: x86, mm: Create slow_virt_to_phys()"
Signed-off-by: default avatarDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: olaf@aepfle.de
Cc: apw@canonical.com
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414580017-27444-1-git-send-email-decui@microsoft.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent b77e8f43
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