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From: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: cbouatmailru@gmail.com, ccross@android.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore/ram: fix undefined usage of rounddown_pow_of_two.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:37:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1807287.lsQvlHRIOP@flexo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+sNV2XCBCA4HQOXyS66MVzzcJDottFdh9hDW5LcD45HA@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 19 October 2012 09:03:12 Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr> wrote:
> > From: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
> >
> > record_size / console_size / ftrace_size can be 0 (this is how you
> > disable the feature), but rounddown_pow_of_two(0) is undefined. This problem
> > has been present since commit 1894a253 (ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.c).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
> > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  fs/pstore/ram.c |   12 ++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> > index 1a4f6da..0c2ae26 100644
> > --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> > +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> > @@ -374,10 +374,14 @@ static int __devinit ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >                 goto fail_out;
> >         }
> >
> > -       pdata->mem_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(pdata->mem_size);
> > -       pdata->record_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(pdata->record_size);
> > -       pdata->console_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(pdata->console_size);
> > -       pdata->ftrace_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(pdata->ftrace_size);
> > +       if (pdata->mem_size)
> > +               pdata->mem_size = rounddown_pow_of_two(pdata->mem_size);
> 
> Nice catch!
> 
> Instead of the == 0 check, what about using !is_power_of_2(size) ?

That would work equally well, I will resubmit with this then.
--
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19 11:59 [PATCH] pstore/ram: fix undefined usage of rounddown_pow_of_two Florian Fainelli
2012-10-19 16:03 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-22  8:37   ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2012-10-22  9:19 ` [PATCH v2] pstore/ram: fix undefined usage of rounddown_pow_of_two(0) Florian Fainelli
2012-10-22 15:17   ` Kees Cook
2012-11-18  1:42     ` Anton Vorontsov

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