Thanks Baoquan!

Reviewed-by: Thomas Garnier <[email protected]>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 4:49 AM Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:17:53AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > In memory KASLR, __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT is taken to calculate the
> > initial size of the direct mapping region. This is right in the
> > old code where __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT was equal to MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS,
> > 46bit, and only 4-level mode was supported.
> >
> > Later, in commit:
> > b83ce5ee91471d ("x86/mm/64: Make __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT always 52"),
> > __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT was changed to be 52 always, no matter it's
> > 5-level or 4-level. This is wrong for 4-level paging. Then when
> > adapt phyiscal memory region size based on available memory, it
> > will overflow if the amount of system RAM and the padding is bigger
> > than 64TB.
> >
> > In fact, here MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS should be used instead. Fix it by
> > by replacing __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT with MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
>
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>  Kirill A. Shutemov



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Thomas

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