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From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] mtd: fix Coverity integer handling issue
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 11:43:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190408114359.29da1f39@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181118211347.47efa9b0@xps13>

Hello,

Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote on Sun, 18 Nov 2018
21:13:47 +0100:

> Hello,
> 
> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote on Sun, 18 Nov 2018
> 21:11:47 +0100:
> 
> > A Coverity robot reported an integer handling issue
> > (OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN) in the potentially overflowing expression:
> > 
> >     (mtd_div_by_ws(mtd->size, mtd) - mtd_div_by_ws(offs, mtd)) *
> >     mtd_oobavail(mtd, ops)
> > 
> > While such overflow will certainly never happen due to the numbers
> > handled, it is cleaner to fix this operation anyway.
> > 
> > The problem is that all the maths include 32-bit quantities, while the
> > result is stored in an explicit 64-bit value.
> > 
> > As maxooblen will just be compared with a size_t, let's change the
> > type of the variable to a size_t. This will not fix anything but will
> > clarify a bit the situation. Then, do an explicit cast to fix Coverity
> > warning.
> > 
> > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 184180 ("Integer handling issues")
> > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> > ---  
> 
> I forgot to add the link to the corresponding Travis-CI job:
> https://travis-ci.org/miquelraynal/u-boot/builds/456679982

Gentle ping on this series (patch 1 & 2). They do apply cleanly on
current master.

Tom, shall I expect you to take it or is it Jagan's mission?


Thanks,
Miquèl

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-18 20:11 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtd: fix mtd_oobavail() incoherent returned value Miquel Raynal
2018-11-18 20:11 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] mtd: fix Coverity integer handling issue Miquel Raynal
2018-11-18 20:13   ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-08  9:43     ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
2019-04-08 11:52       ` Tom Rini
2019-04-08 13:42         ` Miquel Raynal
2019-04-12  5:32   ` Jagan Teki

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