RE: [PATCH] usb: host: add cast to avoid potential integer overflow
From: David Laight
Date: Mon Feb 20 2017 - 07:40:30 EST
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
> Sent: 17 February 2017 00:17
> The type of variable 'sel' is unsigned int. Such variable is being used
> multiple times in a context that expects an expression of type unsigned
> long long. So, to avoid any potential integer overflow, a cast to type
> unsigned long long is added.
...
> - timeout_ns = udev->u1_params.sel * 3;
> + timeout_ns = (unsigned long long)udev->u1_params.sel * 3;
...
It is probably better to just change the constant to 3ull.
However I'd be tempted to look more closely at the valid values
for 'timeout_ns'.
It seems unlikely that that the timeout (in sel) will be near
enough to 4 seconds that multiplying by a small integer will
take the value over 4 seconds without requiring larger input
values be supported.
timeout_ns might even be being used in places where the value
has to be smaller than 1 second!
David