Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: Fix integer overflow check in hugetlbfs_file_mmap()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Jul 13 2023 - 11:10:21 EST


On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 03:57:00PM +0800, linke li wrote:
> > However, if this is a real issue it would make more
> > sense to look for and change all such checks rather than one single occurrence.
>
> Hi, Mike. I have checked the example code you provided, and the
> difference between
> those codes and the patched code is that those checks are checks for
> unsigned integer
> overflow, which is well-defined. Only undefined behavior poses a
> security risk. So they
> don't need any modifications. I have only found one occurrence of
> signed number
> overflow so far.

I used to have a similar check to that but I eventually deleted it
because I decided that the -fno-strict-overflow option works. It didn't
produce a lot of warnings.

Historically we have done a bad job at open coding integer overflow
checks. Some that I wrote turned out to be incorrect. And even when
I write them correctly a couple times people have "fixed" them even
harder without CCing me or asking me why I wrote them the way I did.

What about using the check_add_overflow() macro?

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 7b17ccfa039d..c512165736e0 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -155,9 +155,8 @@ static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
return -EINVAL;

vma_len = (loff_t)(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start);
- len = vma_len + ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
- /* check for overflow */
- if (len < vma_len)
+ if (check_add_overflow(vma_len, (loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT,
+ &len))
return -EINVAL;

inode_lock(inode);