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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:34:18 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix int overflow in callers of do_shrink_slab()
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:28:32PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> do_shrink_slab() returns unsigned long value, and
> the placing into int variable cuts high bytes off.
> Then we compare ret and 0xfffffffe (since SHRINK_EMPTY
> is converted to ret type).
> 
> Thus, big number of objects returned by do_shrink_slab()
> may be interpreted as SHRINK_EMPTY, if low bytes of
> their value are equal to 0xfffffffe. Fix that
> by declaration ret as unsigned long in these functions.
> 
> Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>

Thank you!