RE: net: stmmac: Add basic EST support for GMAC5+
From: Jose Abreu
Date: Thu Dec 26 2019 - 12:14:42 EST
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Dec/20/2019, 23:49:02 (UTC+00:00)
> Hi,
>
> Static analysis with Coverity has detected a potential issue with the
> following commit:
>
> commit 504723af0d85434be5fb6f2dde0b62644a7f1ead
> Author: Jose Abreu <joabreu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Dec 18 11:33:05 2019 +0100
>
> net: stmmac: Add basic EST support for GMAC5+
>
>
> In function dwmac5_est_configure() we have a u64 total_ctr being
> assigned as follows:
>
> total_ctr = cfg->ctr[0] + cfg->ctr[1] * 1000000000;
>
> The cfg->ctr[1] is a u32, the multiplication of cfg->ctr[1] is a u32
> multiplication operation, so multiplying by 1000000000 can potentially
> cause an overflow. Either cfg->ctr[1] needs to be cast to a u64 or
> 1000000000 should be at least a 1000000000UL to avoid this overflow. I
> was going to fix this but on further inspection I was not sure if the
> original code was intended as:
>
> total_ctr = cfg->ctr[0] + cfg->ctr[1] * 1000000000UL;
> or:
> total_ctr = (cfg->ctr[0] + cfg->ctr[1]) * 1000000000UL;
>
> ..hence I'm flagging this up as potential error.
Thanks for the report. The first option is the correct one as ctr[1] is
seconds and ctr[0] is nanoseconds. Can you send a fix-up patch ?
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Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu