On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 23:29 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 86ef58a4e35e8fa66afb5898cf6dec6a3bb29f67 upstream.
>
> The interleave-set cookie is a sum that sanity checks the composition of
> an interleave set has not changed from when the namespace was initially
> created. The checksum is calculated by sorting the DIMMs by their
> location in the interleave-set. The comparison for the sort must be
> 64-bit wide, not byte-by-byte as performed by memcmp() in the broken
> case.
[...]
> --- a/drivers/acpi/nfit.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/nfit.c
[...]
> +static int cmp_map(const void *m0, const void *m1)
> +{
> + const struct nfit_set_info_map *map0 = m0;
> + const struct nfit_set_info_map *map1 = m1;
> +
> + return map0->region_offset - map1->region_offset;
> +}
[...]
This is returning an int, thus it's effectively doing a 32-bit
comparison and not the 64-bit comparison you say is needed.
I think this function needs to do something like:
return (map0->region_offset < map1->region_offset) ? -1 :
(map0->region_offset == map1->region_offset) ? 0 : 1;
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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