[tip:x86/urgent] x86/simplefb: Fix overflow causing bogus fall-back

From: tip-bot for Tom Gundersen
Date: Thu Oct 03 2013 - 10:00:19 EST


Commit-ID: e33a29a5ae711162c6b6fefc0a2ef18f4a4254bf
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/e33a29a5ae711162c6b6fefc0a2ef18f4a4254bf
Author: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 18:18:40 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 07:50:40 +0200

x86/simplefb: Fix overflow causing bogus fall-back

On my MacBook Air lfb_size is 4M, which makes the bitshit
overflow (to 256GB - larger than 32 bits), meaning we fall
back to efifb unnecessarily.

Cast to u64 to avoid the overflow.

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380644320-1026-1-git-send-email-teg@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c
index 22513e9..4ebd636 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ __init int create_simplefb(const struct screen_info *si,
* the part that is occupied by the framebuffer */
len = mode->height * mode->stride;
len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
- if (len > si->lfb_size << 16) {
+ if (len > (u64)si->lfb_size << 16) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfb: VRAM smaller than advertised\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
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