[PATCH] ARM: kdump: Avoid overflow when converting pfn to physaddr

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Mar 18 06:48:55 EDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:20:42PM +0800, Liu Hua wrote:
> When we configure CONFIG_LPAE=y, pfn << PAGE_SHIFT will
> overflow if pfn >= 0x100000 in copy_oldmem_page.
> 
> So use __pfn_to_phys for converting.

Yes.  The sad thing is that if you grep the kernel for similar things,
it's littered with this problem.  I'm not sure whether anyone
particularly "owns" the crash_dump.c file - Mika Westerberg and
Olaf Hering were the last two to touch it... I guess put this in my
patch system please.

Thanks.

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