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 <[email protected]> > > 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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