Re: [PATCH] iommu/dma: Fix calculation overflow in __finalise_sg()

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Jul 01 2019 - 08:22:04 EST


On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 09:38:14PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> The max_len is a u32 type variable so the calculation on the
> left hand of the last if-condition will potentially overflow
> when a cur_len gets closer to UINT_MAX -- note that there're
> drivers setting max_seg_size to UINT_MAX:
> drivers/dma/dw-edma/dw-edma-core.c:745:
> dma_set_max_seg_size(dma->dev, U32_MAX);
> drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c:871:
> dma_set_max_seg_size(&pdev->dev, UINT_MAX);
> drivers/mmc/host/renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac.c:338:
> dma_set_max_seg_size(dev, 0xffffffff);
> drivers/nvme/host/pci.c:2520:
> dma_set_max_seg_size(dev->dev, 0xffffffff);
>
> So this patch just casts the cur_len in the calculation to a
> size_t type to fix the overflow issue, as it's not necessary
> to change the type of cur_len after all.
>
> Fixes: 809eac54cdd6 ("iommu/dma: Implement scatterlist segment merging")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, but I let Robin take a look too before I apply it,
Robin?