Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in block/blk-mq.c:1459:27 with pata_amd

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Sat May 14 2016 - 05:20:30 EST


> Does the patch below help?

Yes, the warning is gone and I see not other errors.

There is nothing attached to pata_amd so I do not know if it works
too.

>
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] blk-mq: fix undefined behaviour in order_to_size()
>
> When this_order variable in blk_mq_init_rq_map() becomes zero
> the code incorrectly decrements the variable and passes the result
> to order_to_size() helper causing undefined behaviour:
>
> UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in block/blk-mq.c:1459:27
> shift exponent 4294967295 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc6-00072-g33656a1 #22
>
> Fix the code by checking this_order variable for not having the zero
> value first.
>
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 320ae51feed5 ("blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism")
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/blk-mq.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 0c2ed83..7df9c92 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags *blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
> int to_do;
> void *p;
>
> - while (left < order_to_size(this_order - 1) && this_order)
> + while (this_order && left < order_to_size(this_order - 1))
> this_order--;
>
> do {
>

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)