This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ >From cafa9442b4891496d9afcf4dd5e48e364c93ddaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:53:37 -0700 Subject: x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE commit d1cd1210834649ce1ca6bafe5ac25d2f40331343 upstream. pte_pfn() returns a PFN of long (32 bits in 32-PAE), so "long << PAGE_SHIFT" will overflow for PFNs above 4GB. Due to this issue, some Linux 32-PAE distros, running as guests on Hyper-V, with 5GB memory assigned, can't load the netvsc driver successfully and hence the synthetic network device can't work (we can use the kernel parameter mem=3000M to work around the issue). Cast pte_pfn() to phys_addr_t before shifting. Fixes: "commit d76565344512: x86, mm: Create slow_virt_to_phys()" Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: olaf@xxxxxxxxx Cc: apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx Cc: riel@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414580017-27444-1-git-send-email-decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index ae242a7c11c7..36de293caf25 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ phys_addr_t slow_virt_to_phys(void *__virt_addr) psize = page_level_size(level); pmask = page_level_mask(level); offset = virt_addr & ~pmask; - phys_addr = pte_pfn(*pte) << PAGE_SHIFT; + phys_addr = (phys_addr_t)pte_pfn(*pte) << PAGE_SHIFT; return (phys_addr | offset); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(slow_virt_to_phys); -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>