[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] efi: fix memory calculation overflow on 32-bit systems
Heinrich Schuchardt
xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Wed Apr 10 00:36:56 UTC 2019
On 4/9/19 10:58 PM, Patrick Wildt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are Cubox-i machines out there with nearly 4 GiB of RAM. The
> RAM starts at 0x10000000 with a size of 0xf0000000. Thus the end
> of RAM is at 0x100000000. This overflows a 32-bit integer, which
> should be fine since in the EFI memory code the variables used are
> all 64-bit with a fixed size. Unfortunately EFI_PAGE_MASK, which is
> used in the EFI memory code to remove the lower bits, is based on
> the EFI_PAGE_SIZE macro which, uses 1UL with a shift. This means
> the resulting mask is UL, which is only 32-bit on ARMv7. Use ULL to
> make sure that even on 32-bit platforms we use a 64-bit long mask.
> Without this there will be no memory available in the EFI memory map
> and bootefi will fail allocating pages.
>
> Best regards,
> Patrick
We are using `& ~EFI_PAGE_MASK` in multiplaces for 64bit operations. So
it makes sense to use a 64bit value.
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
>
> diff --git a/include/efi.h b/include/efi.h
> index d98441ab19d..3c9d20f8c0b 100644
> --- a/include/efi.h
> +++ b/include/efi.h
> @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ enum efi_mem_type {
> #define EFI_MEM_DESC_VERSION 1
>
> #define EFI_PAGE_SHIFT 12
> -#define EFI_PAGE_SIZE (1UL << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)
> +#define EFI_PAGE_SIZE (1ULL << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)
> #define EFI_PAGE_MASK (EFI_PAGE_SIZE - 1)
>
> struct efi_mem_desc {
>
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