Re: [PATCH net] net: ethernet: mlx4: Fix memory allocation in mlx4_buddy_init()

[David Miller]

From: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:37:09 +0800

> On machines with much memory (> 2 TByte) and log_mtts_per_seg == 0, a
> max_order of 31 will be passed to mlx_buddy_init(), which results in
> s = BITS_TO_LONGS(1 << 31) becoming a negative value, leading to
> kvmalloc_array() failure when it is converted to size_t.
> 
>   mlx4_core 0000:b1:00.0: Failed to initialize memory region table, aborting
>   mlx4_core: probe of 0000:b1:00.0 failed with error -12
> 
> Fix this issue by changing the left shifting operand from a signed literal to
> an unsigned one.
> 
> Fixes: 225c7b1feef1 ("IB/mlx4: Add a driver Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters")
> Signed-off-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@xxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.