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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: I Hsin Cheng <richard120310@gmail.com>
Cc: martin.lau@linux.dev, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	andrii@kernel.org, eddyz87@gmail.com, song@kernel.org,
	yonghong.song@linux.dev, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com,
	jolsa@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libbpf: Fix integer overflow issue
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 18:22:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241007172248.GQ4017910@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241007164648.20926-1-richard120310@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 12:46:48AM +0800, I Hsin Cheng wrote:
> Fix integer overflow issue discovered by coverity scan, where
> "bpf_program_fd()" might return a value less than zero. Assignment of
> "prog_fd" to "kern_data" will result in integer overflow in that case.
> 
> Do a pre-check after the program fd is returned, if it's negative we
> should ignore this program and move on, or maybe add some error handling
> mechanism here.

We already had a mechanism there - the one you'd just disabled.
Namely, storing an unsigned long value with MSB set at given
offset.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-07 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-07 16:46 [PATCH] libbpf: Fix integer overflow issue I Hsin Cheng
2024-10-07 17:22 ` Al Viro [this message]
2024-10-07 17:36 ` Song Liu
2024-10-07 19:13 ` Eduard Zingerman
2024-10-08  3:42   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2024-10-08  9:48     ` Eduard Zingerman
2024-10-08 17:21       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2024-10-08 17:34         ` Eduard Zingerman

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