[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 0d123786c10b825b3ae7678131ade30f30803430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu at intel.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 08:41:31 +0800
Subject: PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory()

commit fd432b9f8c7c88428a4635b9f5a9c6e174df6e36 upstream.

When system has a lot of highmem (e.g. 16GiB using a 32 bits kernel),
the code to calculate how much memory we need to preallocate in
normal zone may cause overflow. As Leon has analysed:

 It looks that during computing 'alloc' variable there is overflow:
 alloc = (3943404 - 1970542) - 1978280 = -5418 (signed)
 And this function goes to err_out.

Fix this by avoiding that overflow.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60817
Reported-and-tested-by: Leon Drugi <eyak at wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/power/snapshot.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/snapshot.c b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
index 349587b..e8d1a82 100644
--- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -1399,7 +1399,11 @@ int hibernate_preallocate_memory(void)
 	 * highmem and non-highmem zones separately.
 	 */
 	pages_highmem = preallocate_image_highmem(highmem / 2);
-	alloc = (count - max_size) - pages_highmem;
+	alloc = count - max_size;
+	if (alloc > pages_highmem)
+		alloc -= pages_highmem;
+	else
+		alloc = 0;
 	pages = preallocate_image_memory(alloc, avail_normal);
 	if (pages < alloc) {
 		/* We have exhausted non-highmem pages, try highmem. */
--
1.8.3.2