Re: [PATCH] of: address: Report error on resource bounds overflow

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Thu Sep 05 2024 - 09:41:28 EST


On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 08:15:40AM GMT, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 2:46 AM Thomas Weißschuh
> <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The members "start" and "end" of struct resource are of type
> > "resource_size_t" which can be 32bit wide.
> > Values read from OF however are always 64bit wide.
> > Avoid silently truncating the value and instead return an error value.
> >
> > This can happen on real systems when the DT was created for a
> > PAE-enabled kernel and a non-PAE kernel is actually running.
> > For example with an arm defconfig and "qemu-system-arm -M virt".
>
> A nice follow-up would be to make of_pci_range_to_resource() use
> overflows_type() as well instead of open coding it.

Good catch.

There are some differences though, it
* returns -EINVAL on overflow instead of -EOVERFLOW
* sets ->start and ->end to OF_BAD_ADDR on overflow
* does not check ->end for overflow

I don't have much experience with OF, so I'm not sure which of these are
important and if overflow checks on intermediate calculations are also
necessary.