Re: [PATCH] psi: fix integer overflow on unsigned int multiply on 32 bit systems

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Sep 10 2021 - 11:34:23 EST


On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 05:55:24PM +0530, Ravi Singh wrote:
> psi accepts window sizes upto WINDOW_MAX_US(10000000). In the case
> where window_us is larger than 4294967, the result of an
> multiplication overflows an unsigned int/long(4 bytes on 32 bit
> system).
>
> For example, this can happen when the window_us is 5000000 so 5000000
> * 1000 (NSEC_PER_USEC) will result in 5000000000 which is greater than
> UINT_MAX(4294967295). Due to this overflow, 705032704 is stored in
> t->win.size instead of 5000000000. Now psi will be monitoring the
> window size of 705 msecs instead of 5 secs as expected by user.
>
> Fix this by type casting the first term of the mutiply to a u64.
>
> Issue doesnot occur on 64 bit systems because NSEC_PER_USEC is of type
> long which is 8 bytes on 64 bit systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Singh <ravi.singh1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Goel <vishal.goel@xxxxxxxxxxx>

That's not a valid SoB chain.