Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sgl_alloc_order: remove 4 GiB limit, sgl_free() warning

Bodo Stroesser
2021-01-19T18:49:01Z

On 19.01.21 19:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:08:32PM +0100, Bodo Stroesser wrote:
>> On 19.01.21 19:03, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 06:24:49PM +0100, Bodo Stroesser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I had a second look into math.h, but I don't find any reason why round_up
>>>> could overflow. Can you give a hint please?
>>>
>>> #define round_up(x, y) ((((x)-1) | __round_mask(x, y))+1)
>>> ^^^^^
>>>
>>> That +1 can overflow
>>
>> But that would be a unsigned long long overflow. I considered this to
>> not be relevant.
>
> Why not? It still makes nents 0 and still causes a bad bug
>

Generally spoken, you of course are right.

OTOH, if someone tries to allocate such big sgls, then we will run into
trouble during memory allocation even without overrun.

Anyway, if we first calculate nent and nalloc and then check with

if ((unsigned long long)nalloc << (PAGE_SHIFT + order) < length)
return NULL;

I think we would have checked against all kind of overrun in a single
step. Or am I missing something?

Bodo