Re: [PATCH] RDMA/hns: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:02:58AM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Cast *max_num_sg* to u64 in order to give the compiler complete
> information about the proper arithmetic to use.
>
> Notice that such variable is used in a context that expects an
> expression of type u64 (64 bits, unsigned) and the following
> expression is currently being evaluated using 32-bit
> arithmetic:

And what is wrong with that?
Please fix static analyzer tool instead of fixing proper C code.

Thanks

>
> length = max_num_sg * page_size;
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1474517 ("Unintentional integer overflow")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
> index 521ad2a..d479d5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_mr.c
> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ struct ib_mr *hns_roce_alloc_mr(struct ib_pd *pd, enum ib_mr_type mr_type,
>  	int ret;
>
>  	page_size = 1 << (hr_dev->caps.pbl_buf_pg_sz + PAGE_SHIFT);
> -	length = max_num_sg * page_size;
> +	length = (u64)max_num_sg * page_size;
>
>  	if (mr_type != IB_MR_TYPE_MEM_REG)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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