Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2011-06-03

Re: [patch] xen: off by one errors in multicalls.c

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <hidden>
Date: 2011-06-03 18:24:20

On 06/02/2011 09:45 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
b->args[] has MC_ARGS elements, so the comparison here should be
">=" instead of ">".  Otherwise we read past the end of the array
one space.
Yeah, looks like a correct fix.  Fortunately I don't think anything
currently hits that path in practice, though there are some pending
patches which will exercise it more.

Thanks,
    J
quoted hunk
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
---
This is a static checker patch and I haven't tested it.  Please
review carefully.
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c b/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c
index 8bff7e7..1b2b73f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c
@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@ struct multicall_space __xen_mc_entry(size_t args)
 	unsigned argidx = roundup(b->argidx, sizeof(u64));
 
 	BUG_ON(preemptible());
-	BUG_ON(b->argidx > MC_ARGS);
+	BUG_ON(b->argidx >= MC_ARGS);
 
 	if (b->mcidx == MC_BATCH ||
-	    (argidx + args) > MC_ARGS) {
+	    (argidx + args) >= MC_ARGS) {
 		mc_stats_flush(b->mcidx == MC_BATCH ? FL_SLOTS : FL_ARGS);
 		xen_mc_flush();
 		argidx = roundup(b->argidx, sizeof(u64));
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ struct multicall_space __xen_mc_entry(size_t args)
 	ret.args = &b->args[argidx];
 	b->argidx = argidx + args;
 
-	BUG_ON(b->argidx > MC_ARGS);
+	BUG_ON(b->argidx >= MC_ARGS);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ struct multicall_space xen_mc_extend_args(unsigned long op, size_t size)
 	struct multicall_space ret = { NULL, NULL };
 
 	BUG_ON(preemptible());
-	BUG_ON(b->argidx > MC_ARGS);
+	BUG_ON(b->argidx >= MC_ARGS);
 
 	if (b->mcidx == 0)
 		return ret;
@@ -224,14 +224,14 @@ struct multicall_space xen_mc_extend_args(unsigned long op, size_t size)
 	if (b->entries[b->mcidx - 1].op != op)
 		return ret;
 
-	if ((b->argidx + size) > MC_ARGS)
+	if ((b->argidx + size) >= MC_ARGS)
 		return ret;
 
 	ret.mc = &b->entries[b->mcidx - 1];
 	ret.args = &b->args[b->argidx];
 	b->argidx += size;
 
-	BUG_ON(b->argidx > MC_ARGS);
+	BUG_ON(b->argidx >= MC_ARGS);
 	return ret;
 }
 
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