Re: [PATCH] arm: Prevent memory aliasing on non-LPAE kernels

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On 5/30/2013 3:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
+       if (size > ((phys_addr_t)~0))
+               size = ((phys_addr_t)~0);
+
+       /* arm_add_memory() already checks for the case of base + size > 4GB */
+#endif
         arm_add_memory(base, size);
  }

This looks wrong for the case where 'base' is between >0 and 4GB and 'size'
makes it spill over the 4GB boundary. You need to set
'size = (phys_addr_t)~0 - base' then.


Ah. I believe arm_add_memory() already has the logic to handle this case. Here, we are just trying to shrink 'size' to fit into phys_addr_t, since it is currently u64 but arm_add_memory() uses phys_addr_t for its arguments. I did not want to have this logic in two places, but I can do what you said if you like.


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