Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 4 authors, 2018-10-13

Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] block: fix signed int overflow in Amiga partition support

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2018-10-12 08:59:03

Hi Michael,

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 2:27 AM Michael Schmitz [off-list ref] wrote:
The Amiga partition parser module uses signed int for partition sector
address and count, which will overflow for disks larger than 1 TB.

Use sector_t as type for sector address and size to allow using disks
up to 2 TB without LBD support, and disks larger than 2 TB with LBD.

This bug was reported originally in 2012, and the fix was created by
the RDB author, Joanne Dow [off-list ref]. A patch had been
discussed and reviewed on linux-m68k at that time but never officially
submitted. This patch differs from Joanne's patch only in its use of
sector_t instead of unsigned int. No checking for overflows is done
(see patch 2 of this series for that).

Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511
Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <redacted>
Message-ID: [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Martin Steigerwald <redacted>
Thanks for your patch!
Changes from v4:

Andreas Schwab:
- correct cast to sector_t in sector address calculations
Which you only did for the first case...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/block/partitions/amiga.c
+++ b/block/partitions/amiga.c
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -100,14 +101,14 @@ int amiga_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)

                /* Tell Kernel about it */

-               nr_sects = (be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[10]) + 1 -
-                           be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[9])) *
+               nr_sects = ((sector_t) be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[10])
...here ...
+                          + 1 - be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[9])) *
                           be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[3]) *
                           be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[5]) *
                           blksize;
                if (!nr_sects)
                        continue;
-               start_sect = be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[9]) *
+               start_sect = (sector_t) be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[9]) *
... but not here?
                             be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[3]) *
                             be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[5]) *
                             blksize;
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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