Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2014 01:52:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] bug fix for devicetree memory parsing |
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On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> Can you pull this bug fix into your tree please? > > I took it, but I think both your explanation and the patch itself is > actually crap. It may fix the issue, but it's seriously confused. > > Your explanation says that it's a 32-bit platform issue. No it's not. > Most 32-bit configurations still have a 64-bit phys_addr_t (ie > PAE/LPAE etc). > > And the code is crap, because it uses ULONG_MAX etc in ways that > simply make no f*cking sense. And why does it care about sizeof? > > Why does the code not just do something like > > #define MAX_PHYS_ADDR ((phys_addr_t) ~0) > > and then do > > if (base > MAX_PHYS_ADDR || base + size > MAX_PHYS_ADDR) > ...
Sure. I'll make sure a cleanup patch gets written and queued up.
g.
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