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[3.5.yuz,extended,stable] Patch "oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl()" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1353559535-31932-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com
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Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Nov. 22, 2012, 4:45 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.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 3.5.yuz tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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From 47483126462c7683cfe26f8c87bbd9186680c576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:18:35 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl()

commit 44009105081b51417f311f4c3be0061870b6b8ed upstream.

The "event" variable is a u16 so the shift will always wrap to zero
making the line a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
index 26b8a85..48768df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@  u64 op_x86_get_ctrl(struct op_x86_model_spec const *model,
 	val |= counter_config->extra;
 	event &= model->event_mask ? model->event_mask : 0xFF;
 	val |= event & 0xFF;
-	val |= (event & 0x0F00) << 24;
+	val |= (u64)(event & 0x0F00) << 24;

 	return val;
 }