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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libfs: fix accidental overflow in offset calculation
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 01:49:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240510004906.GU2118490@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240510-b4-sio-libfs-v1-1-e747affb1da7@google.com>

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:35:51AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> @@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ loff_t dcache_dir_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
>  	struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
>  	switch (whence) {
>  		case 1:
> -			offset += file->f_pos;
> +			/* cannot represent offset with loff_t */
> +			if (check_add_overflow(offset, file->f_pos, &offset))
> +				return -EOVERFLOW;

Instead of -EINVAL it correctly returns in such cases?  Why?

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-10  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-10  0:35 [PATCH] libfs: fix accidental overflow in offset calculation Justin Stitt
2024-05-10  0:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
2024-05-10  1:04   ` Al Viro
2024-05-10  3:26     ` Justin Stitt
2024-05-10  4:48       ` Al Viro
2024-05-10  6:33         ` Al Viro
2024-05-10  7:02           ` Al Viro

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