From: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] lib/mpi: mpi_read_raw_data(): fix nbits calculation
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:05:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1464260732-4446-2-git-send-email-nicstange@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464260732-4446-1-git-send-email-nicstange@gmail.com>
The number of bits, nbits, is calculated in mpi_read_raw_data() as follows:
nbits = nbytes * 8;
Afterwards, the number of leading zero bits of the first byte get
subtracted:
nbits -= count_leading_zeros(buffer[0]);
However, count_leading_zeros() takes an unsigned long and thus,
the u8 gets promoted to an unsigned long.
Thus, the above doesn't subtract the number of leading zeros in the most
significant nonzero input byte from nbits, but the number of leading
zeros of the most significant nonzero input byte promoted to unsigned long,
i.e. BITS_PER_LONG - 8 too many.
Fix this by subtracting
count_leading_zeros(...) - (BITS_PER_LONG - 8)
from nbits only.
Fixes: e1045992949 ("MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an
MPI")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
---
Applicable to linux-next-20150525.
lib/mpi/mpicoder.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
index c160393..d197210 100644
--- a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
+++ b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ MPI mpi_read_raw_data(const void *xbuffer, size_t nbytes)
return NULL;
}
if (nbytes > 0)
- nbits -= count_leading_zeros(buffer[0]);
+ nbits -= count_leading_zeros(buffer[0]) - (BITS_PER_LONG - 8);
nlimbs = DIV_ROUND_UP(nbytes, BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB);
val = mpi_alloc(nlimbs);
--
2.8.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-26 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-26 11:05 [PATCH 1/2] lib/mpi: mpi_read_raw_data(): purge redundant clearing of nbits Nicolai Stange
2016-05-26 11:05 ` Nicolai Stange [this message]
2016-05-31 10:18 ` Herbert Xu
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