Re: [BUG]memblock: fix overflow of array index

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On 04/25/2012 03:31 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:29:31 -0700
> 
>> On 04/25/2012 03:28 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>
>>> All indexes in memblock are integers.  Changing that particular one to
>>> unsigned int doesn't fix anything.  I think it just makes things more
>>> confusing.  If there ever are cases w/ more then 2G memblocks, we're
>>> going for 64bit not unsigned.
>>>
>>
>> I would expect there to be plenty of memblocks larger than 2G?
> 
> Yes, but not the array indexes into those memblock entries, which is
> what this patch is about.

OIC... more than 2^31 memblocks.

	-hpa

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