Re: [RFC 2/2] kvm: eventfd: detect integer overflow using check_*_overflow

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Wed Nov 26 2014 - 12:50:24 EST


2014-11-26 17:00 GMT+03:00 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Detect integer overflows using safe operations rather than relying on
> undefined behaviour.
>

Unsigned overflow is defined.
args->addr and args->len both unsigned, so there is no UB here.

> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> index 148b239..2eb044f 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ kvm_assign_ioeventfd(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_ioeventfd *args)
> }
>
> /* check for range overflow */
> - if (args->addr + args->len < args->addr)
> + if (check_add_overflow(args->len, args->addr))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> /* check for extra flags that we don't understand */
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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