Re: [PATCH] of: Use proper types for checking memory overflow

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Laura Abbott <lauraa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit a67a6ed15513541579d38bcbd127e7be170710e5
> (of: Check for phys_addr_t overflows in early_init_dt_add_memory_arch)
> corrected early_init_dt_add_memory_arch to account for overflows
> but did so in an unclean way using ULONG_MAX. There is no
> guarantee that sizeof(unsigned long) == sizeof(phys_addr_t).
> Check against phys_addr_t instead.

Thanks!

> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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