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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use correct type for HYPERVISOR_memory_op()

To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:23:49 +0100
Delivery-date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:24:09 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

On 04/09/15 13:50, Juergen Gross wrote:
> HYPERVISOR_memory_op() is defined to return an "int" value. This is
> wrong, as the Xen hypervisor will return "long".
> 
> The sub-function XENMEM_maximum_reservation returns the maximum
> number of pages for the current domain. An int will overflow for a
> domain configured with 8TB of memory or more.
> 
> Correct this by using the correct type.

Applied to for-linus-4.3, thanks.

David

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