Re: [PATCH] thermal: intel: hfi: Improve the type of hfi_features::nr_table_pages

[Ricardo Neri]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 08:13:15PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:16 PM Ricardo Neri
> <ricardo.neri-calderon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A Coverity static code scan raised a potential overflow_before_widen
> > warning when hfi_features::nr_table_pages is used as an argument to
> > memcpy in intel_hfi_process_event().
> >
> > Even though the overflow can never happen (the maximum number of pages of
> > the HFI table is 0x10 and 0x10 << PAGE_SHIFT = 0x10000), using size_t as
> > the data type of hfi_features::nr_table_pages makes Coverity happy and
> > matches the data type of the argument 'size' of memcpy().
> >
> > Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Amit Kucheria <amitk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/thermal/intel/intel_hfi.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_hfi.c b/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_hfi.c
> > index a0640f762dc5..239afe02e518 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_hfi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_hfi.c
> > @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ struct hfi_instance {
> >   * Parameters and supported features that are common to all HFI instances
> >   */
> >  struct hfi_features {
> > -       unsigned int    nr_table_pages;
> > +       size_t          nr_table_pages;
> >         unsigned int    cpu_stride;
> >         unsigned int    hdr_size;
> >  };
> > --
> 
> Applied as 6.2 material, thanks!

Thank you Rafael!