Discussion:
[PATCH] mm, hugetlb: correct bit shift in hstate_sizelog
Sasha Levin
2014-10-21 18:15:07 UTC
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hstate_sizelog() would shift left an int rather than long, triggering
undefined behaviour and passing an incorrect value when the requested
page size was more than 4GB, thus breaking >4GB pages.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <***@oracle.com>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 65e12a2..57e0dfd 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ static inline struct hstate *hstate_sizelog(int page_size_log)
{
if (!page_size_log)
return &default_hstate;
- return size_to_hstate(1 << page_size_log);
+
+ return size_to_hstate(1UL << page_size_log);
}

static inline struct hstate *hstate_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
--
1.7.10.4

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