Re: [PATCH] comedi: drivers: ni_tio: Fix arithmetic expression overflow

From: Ian Abbott
Date: Wed Jan 17 2024 - 11:22:30 EST


On 17/01/2024 12:42, Denis Arefev wrote:
The value of an arithmetic expression period_ns * 1000 is subject
to overflow due to a failure to cast operands to a larger data
type before performing arithmetic

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Signed-off-by: Denis Arefev <arefev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c
index da6826d77e60..acc914903c70 100644
--- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c
+++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ static int ni_tio_set_clock_src(struct ni_gpct *counter,
GI_PRESCALE_X2(counter_dev->variant) |
GI_PRESCALE_X8(counter_dev->variant), bits);
}
- counter->clock_period_ps = period_ns * 1000;
+ counter->clock_period_ps = period_ns * 1000UL;
ni_tio_set_sync_mode(counter);
return 0;
}

Looks good, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>

Could you resend it and Cc Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ? It's more likely to get applied that way because I don't maintain my own kernel tree for comedi. Feel free to add my Reviewed-by line.

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