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Commit a880e762 authored by Roland Dreier's avatar Roland Dreier Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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powerpc: Avoid integer overflow in page_is_ram()

Commit 8b150478

 ("ppc: make phys_mem_access_prot() work with pfns
instead of addresses") fixed page_is_ram() in arch/ppc to avoid overflow
for addresses above 4G on 32-bit kernels.  However arch/powerpc's
page_is_ram() is missing the same fix -- it computes a physical address
by doing pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, which overflows if pfn corresponds to a page
above 4G.

In particular this causes pages above 4G to be mapped with the wrong
caching attribute; for example many ppc440-based SoCs have PCI space
above 4G, and mmap()ing MMIO space may end up with a mapping that has
caching enabled.

Fix this by working with the pfn and avoiding the conversion to
physical address that causes the overflow.  This patch compares the
pfn to max_pfn, which is a semantic change from the old code -- that
code compared the physical address to high_memory, which corresponds
to max_low_pfn.  However, I think that was is another bug, since
highmem pages are still RAM.

Reported-by: default avatarvb <vb@vsbe.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 6ddc9d32
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