The patch below does not apply to the 3.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From a168dc393dde134c7ac9e542d778ed1ec3e25211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markos Chandras <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:04:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Malta: Improve system memory detection for '{e, }memsize' >= 2G Using kstrtol to parse the "{e,}memsize" variables was wrong because this parses signed long numbers. In case of '{e,}memsize' >= 2G, the top bit is set, resulting to -ERANGE errors and possibly random system memory boundaries. We fix this by replacing "kstrtol" with "kstrtoul". We also improve the code to check the kstrtoul return value and print a warning if an error was returned. Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> # v3.15+ Cc: [email protected] Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7543/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]> diff --git a/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-memory.c b/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-memory.c index 0c35dee0a215..8fddd2cdbff7 100644 --- a/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-memory.c +++ b/arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-memory.c @@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ fw_memblock_t * __init fw_getmdesc(int eva) /* otherwise look in the environment */ memsize_str = fw_getenv("memsize"); - if (memsize_str) - tmp = kstrtol(memsize_str, 0, &memsize); + if (memsize_str) { + tmp = kstrtoul(memsize_str, 0, &memsize); + if (tmp) + pr_warn("Failed to read the 'memsize' env variable.\n"); + } if (eva) { /* Look for ememsize for EVA */ ememsize_str = fw_getenv("ememsize"); - if (ememsize_str) - tmp = kstrtol(ememsize_str, 0, &ememsize); + if (ememsize_str) { + tmp = kstrtoul(ememsize_str, 0, &ememsize); + if (tmp) + pr_warn("Failed to read the 'ememsize' env variable.\n"); + } } if (!memsize && !ememsize) { pr_warn("memsize not set in YAMON, set to default (32Mb)\n"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
