Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for intel_detect_tlb

From: Alex Shi
Date: Mon Oct 31 2022 - 08:05:18 EST


On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 7:43 PM Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing
> significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:
>
> UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c:948:21
> left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5
> dump_stack+0x15/0x1b
> ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e
> __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c
> intel_detect_tlb+0x114/0xbd0
> identify_boot_cpu+0x29/0x9e
> check_bugs+0x2f/0x15a5
> start_kernel+0xc3f/0xc78
> x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x2a
> x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf8
> secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe5/0xeb
> </TASK>
>
> Fixes: e0ba94f14f74 ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
> Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
> index 2d7ea5480ec3..121c1c38162a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
> @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ static void intel_detect_tlb(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>
> /* If bit 31 is set, this is an unknown format */
> for (j = 0 ; j < 3 ; j++)
> - if (regs[j] & (1 << 31))
> + if (regs[j] & (1U << 31))
> regs[j] = 0;
>
> /* Byte 0 is level count, not a descriptor */
> --
> 2.25.1
>