Re: [PATCH] libceph: fix overflow check in crush_decode()

[Sage Weil]

Applied these both, thanks!

sage

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Xi Wang wrote:

> The existing overflow check (n > ULONG_MAX / b) didn't work, because
> n = ULONG_MAX / b would both bypass the check and still overflow the
> allocation size a + n * b.
> 
> The correct check should be (n > (ULONG_MAX - a) / b).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/ceph/osdmap.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ceph/osdmap.c b/net/ceph/osdmap.c
> index fd863fe..29ad46e 100644
> --- a/net/ceph/osdmap.c
> +++ b/net/ceph/osdmap.c
> @@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ static struct crush_map *crush_decode(void *pbyval, void *end)
>  		ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, yes, bad);
>  #if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
>  		err = -EINVAL;
> -		if (yes > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct crush_rule_step))
> +		if (yes > (ULONG_MAX - sizeof(*r))
> +			  / sizeof(struct crush_rule_step))
>  			goto bad;
>  #endif
>  		r = c->rules[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(*r) +
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
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