[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][next] ixgbe: fix potential u32 overflow on shift
Keller, Jacob E
jacob.e.keller at intel.com
Fri Jun 7 17:44:34 UTC 2019
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin King [mailto:colin.king at canonical.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2019 6:11 AM
> To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>; David S . Miller <davem at davemloft.net>; intel-wired-
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> Cc: kernel-janitors at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH][next] ixgbe: fix potential u32 overflow on shift
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> The u32 variable rem is being shifted using u32 arithmetic however
> it is being passed to div_u64 that expects the expression to be a u64.
> The 32 bit shift may potentially overflow, so cast rem to a u64 before
> shifting to avoid this.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unintentional integer overflow")
> Fixes: cd4583206990 ("ixgbe: implement support for SDP/PPS output on X550
> hardware")
> Fixes: 68d9676fc04e ("ixgbe: fix PTP SDP pin setup on X540 hardware")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c
> index 2c4d327fcc2e..ff229d0e9146 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static void ixgbe_ptp_setup_sdp_X540(struct ixgbe_adapter
> *adapter)
> * assumes that the cycle counter shift is small enough to avoid
> * overflowing when shifting the remainder.
> */
With this change, the comment above the div_u64 doesn't make much sense. I would also drop the part about the assuming it won't overflow the remainder.
> - clock_edge += div_u64((rem << cc->shift), cc->mult);
> + clock_edge += div_u64(((u64)rem << cc->shift), cc->mult);
> trgttiml = (u32)clock_edge;
> trgttimh = (u32)(clock_edge >> 32);
>
> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ static void ixgbe_ptp_setup_sdp_X550(struct ixgbe_adapter
> *adapter)
> * assumes that the cycle counter shift is small enough to avoid
> * overflowing when shifting the remainder.
> */
Same here.
Thanks,
Jake
> - clock_edge += div_u64((rem << cc->shift), cc->mult);
> + clock_edge += div_u64(((u64)rem << cc->shift), cc->mult);
>
> /* X550 hardware stores the time in 32bits of 'billions of cycles' and
> * 32bits of 'cycles'. There's no guarantee that cycles represents
> --
> 2.20.1
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