Re: [PATCH] RDMA/hns: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon Oct 22 2018 - 14:22:13 EST




On 10/22/18 8:15 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:02:58AM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Cast *max_num_sg* to u64 in order to give the compiler complete
>> information about the proper arithmetic to use.
>>
>> Notice that such variable is used in a context that expects an
>> expression of type u64 (64 bits, unsigned) and the following
>> expression is currently being evaluated using 32-bit
>> arithmetic:
>>
>> length = max_num_sg * page_size;
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1474517 ("Unintentional integer overflow")
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
>> index 521ad2a..d479d5e 100644
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
>> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ struct ib_mr *hns_roce_alloc_mr(struct ib_pd *pd, enum ib_mr_type mr_type,
>> int ret;
>>
>> page_size = 1 << (hr_dev->caps.pbl_buf_pg_sz + PAGE_SHIFT);
>> - length = max_num_sg * page_size;
>> + length = (u64)max_num_sg * page_size;
>
> This should be done with check_mul_overflow() which will also force
> the input types to the correct thing.
>

Yep, you're right. That's part of the new API for checking overflows.

I'll use that macro.

> alloc_mr is callable from userspace so the potential overflow here
> should not be ignored.
>

Thanks for the feedback.
--
Gustavo