This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory() to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: pm-hibernate-avoid-overflow-in-hibernate_preallocate_memory.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fd432b9f8c7c88428a4635b9f5a9c6e174df6e36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 08:41:31 +0800 Subject: PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory() From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx> commit fd432b9f8c7c88428a4635b9f5a9c6e174df6e36 upstream. When system has a lot of highmem (e.g. 16GiB using a 32 bits kernel), the code to calculate how much memory we need to preallocate in normal zone may cause overflow. As Leon has analysed: It looks that during computing 'alloc' variable there is overflow: alloc = (3943404 - 1970542) - 1978280 = -5418 (signed) And this function goes to err_out. Fix this by avoiding that overflow. References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60817 Reported-and-tested-by: Leon Drugi <eyak@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/power/snapshot.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c +++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c @@ -1398,7 +1398,11 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void) * highmem and non-highmem zones separately. */ pages_highmem = preallocate_image_highmem(highmem / 2); - alloc = (count - max_size) - pages_highmem; + alloc = count - max_size; + if (alloc > pages_highmem) + alloc -= pages_highmem; + else + alloc = 0; pages = preallocate_image_memory(alloc, avail_normal); if (pages < alloc) { /* We have exhausted non-highmem pages, try highmem. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/pm-hibernate-avoid-overflow-in-hibernate_preallocate_memory.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html