Re: [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Pekka Enberg - Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:00:58PM +0200]
| Hi Cyrill,
| 
| On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > @@ -980,9 +986,12 @@ extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR
| >
| >  static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
| >  {
| > -       if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
| > +       unsigned long idx = SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr);
| > +       WARN_ON_ONCE(idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
| > +
| > +       if (idx >=NR_SECTION_ROOTS || !mem_section[idx])
| >                return NULL;
| 
| Looks good to me but I have minor nitpick. You might want to write the
| above like this:
| 
|     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS))
|             return NULL;
| 
| to separate the error condition from the normal case where we don't
| have a mem section.
| 
| > -       return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
| > +       return &mem_section[idx][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
| >  }
| 

Hi Pekka,

thanks, indeed! I forget that WARN_.. do return a value :)
Will fix shortly.

		- Cyrill -
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