Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:31:21 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [BUG]memblock: fix overflow of array index | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:29:31 -0700
> On 04/25/2012 03:28 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >> >> All indexes in memblock are integers. Changing that particular one to >> unsigned int doesn't fix anything. I think it just makes things more >> confusing. If there ever are cases w/ more then 2G memblocks, we're >> going for 64bit not unsigned. >> > > I would expect there to be plenty of memblocks larger than 2G?
Yes, but not the array indexes into those memblock entries, which is what this patch is about.
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