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From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
To: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>,
	<linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mtd-utils] misc-utils: Fix integer overflow in docfdisk.c
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:30:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4698a856-77a6-555e-7b9f-82e7247e2a5c@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241217124422.245489-1-ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>

在 2024/12/17 20:44, Anton Moryakov 写道:
> Report of the static analyzer:
> Possible integer underflow: left operand is tainted. An integer underflow may occur due to arithmetic operation (subtraction) between variable 'block' and value '1', when 'block' is tainted { [-2147483648, 2147483647] }
> 
> Corrections explained:
> Added the block <= 0 check, which prevents integer underflow when calculating block - 1 and ensures that block is always positive.
> 
> Triggers found by static analyzer Svace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>
> 
> ---
>   misc-utils/docfdisk.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/misc-utils/docfdisk.c b/misc-utils/docfdisk.c
> index 486ce29..e473ceb 100644
> --- a/misc-utils/docfdisk.c
> +++ b/misc-utils/docfdisk.c
> @@ -255,6 +255,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>   		ip->firstUnit = cpu_to_le32(block);
>   		if (!nblocks[i])
>   			nblocks[i] = totblocks - block;
> +		if (block <= 0) {
> +			fprintf(stderr, "Error: Invalid block value (%d). Block must be greater than 0.\n", block);
> +			return -1;
> +		}

In the previous code, 'block' is already initialized as:
  block = mhoffs / unitsize;
  block++;
So I don't think underflow could happen.
>   		ip->virtualUnits = cpu_to_le32(nblocks[i]);
>   		block += nblocks[i];
>   		ip->lastUnit = cpu_to_le32(block-1);
> 


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2024-12-17 12:44 [PATCH mtd-utils] misc-utils: Fix integer overflow in docfdisk.c Anton Moryakov
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