Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754437AbYJ2N23 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:28:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753854AbYJ2N2U (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:28:20 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:9286 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753837AbYJ2N2T (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:28:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=i9rd7CUNa94qBHfmgFYKObfs2PDyQsNSIziSgqcWTRGAaYQk8+kyQDgNqhjXCZUqeN LIdnDyeG1govgTPvn/IdSi9djQBZSvQK/fcCVRqv3DpbvBj5E/xHcOUjmjyDiBfFJtUX Ys+PU/o2ljczgksh8Q1LTzkptYMerBFmHmN5k= Message-ID: <7a9b5c320810290628q615285gb3b67230776ab4e1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:28:16 +1300 From: "Phillip O'Donnell" To: "Roland Dreier" Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Avoid overflow in ata_tf_to_lba48() when tf->hba_lbal > 127 Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081028170105.GA21933@osk.mine.nu> <7a9b5c320810281625kbf8904x9ba432ff0ca8c2f8@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2103 Lines: 58 Confirmed - HPA is no longer detected on boot. Cheers, Phillip On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > In ata_tf_to_lba48(), when evaluating > > (tf->hob_lbal & 0xff) << 24 > > the expression is promoted to signed int (since int can hold all values > of u8). However, if hob_lbal is 128 or more, then it is treated as a > negative signed value and sign-extended when promoted to u64 to | into > sectors, which leads to the MSB 32 bits of section getting set > incorrectly. > > For example, Phillip O'Donnell reported > that a 1.5GB drive caused: > > ata3.00: HPA detected: current 2930277168, native 18446744072344861488 > > where 2930277168 == 0xAEA87B30 and 18446744072344861488 == 0xffffffffaea87b30 > which shows the problem when hob_lbal is 0xae. > > Fix this by adding a cast to u64, just as is used by for hob_lbah and > hob_lbam in the function. > > Reported-by: Phillip O'Donnell > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier > --- > Phillip, this should fix at least your cosmetic issue; can you test it > and report back? > > Thanks, > Roland > > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > index bbb3cae..10424ff 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c > @@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ u64 ata_tf_to_lba48(const struct ata_taskfile *tf) > > sectors |= ((u64)(tf->hob_lbah & 0xff)) << 40; > sectors |= ((u64)(tf->hob_lbam & 0xff)) << 32; > - sectors |= (tf->hob_lbal & 0xff) << 24; > + sectors |= ((u64)(tf->hob_lbal & 0xff)) << 24; > sectors |= (tf->lbah & 0xff) << 16; > sectors |= (tf->lbam & 0xff) << 8; > sectors |= (tf->lbal & 0xff); > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/