[PATCH] makedumpfile: fix off-by-one bug in page_to_pfn()

tachibana at mxm.nes.nec.co.jp tachibana at mxm.nes.nec.co.jp
Mon Dec 12 19:21:10 EST 2011


Hi Wen,

On 2011/12/12 17:23:59 +0800, Wen Congyang <wency at cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> At 11/24/2011 01:20 PM, Atsushi Kumagai Write:
> > Hi Wen,
> > 
> > Thank you for the patch. 
> > I will check it.
> 
> Hi, kumagai
> 
> do you have any comment for this patch?

Sorry for late reply.
I will merge your fix to the next makedumpfile. By the way, did you 
detect this problem only by source program? Or by result of makedumpfile?
If there is no problem, please let me know it.

Thanks
tachibana


> 
> Thanks
> Wen Congyang
> 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Kumagai
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:53:51 +0800
> > Wen Congyang <wency at cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> The pfn region in a mmd is [mmd->pfn_start, mmd->pfn_end).
> >> So the max index should be mmd->pfn_end - mmd->pfn_start -1.
> >> If index >=(not >) mmd->pfn_end - mmd->pfn_start, we should check
> >> the next mmd.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency at cn.fujitsu.com>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  makedumpfile.c |    2 +-
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
> >> index 7b7c266..db8e53f 100644
> >> --- a/makedumpfile.c
> >> +++ b/makedumpfile.c
> >> @@ -2879,7 +2879,7 @@ page_to_pfn(unsigned long page)
> >>  		if (page < mmd->mem_map)
> >>  			continue;
> >>  		index = (page - mmd->mem_map) / SIZE(page);
> >> -		if (index > mmd->pfn_end - mmd->pfn_start)
> >> +		if (index >= mmd->pfn_end - mmd->pfn_start)
> >>  			continue;
> >>  		pfn = mmd->pfn_start + index;
> >>  		break;
> >> -- 
> >> 1.7.1
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