[U-Boot] efi: fix memory calculation overflow on 32-bit systems
Patrick DELAUNAY
patrick.delaunay at st.com
Thu Apr 11 08:38:40 UTC 2019
Hi Patrick,
> From: U-Boot <u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de> On Behalf Of Patrick Wildt
>
> 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
>
> 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 {
Same issue for stm32mp157c-ev1 board (32bits platform with 1GB at 0xC0000000).
Patched tested on v2019.04 and my issue is solved and it is a better approach that my patch http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1083262/
So I will abandon my path and
Reviewed-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay at st.com>
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Regards
Patrick
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