[PATCH] parisc: unwind: Replace open-coded binary search with bsearch()

From: Sean Young

Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 10:16:39 EST


There is a bug in the binary search where hi can underflow. If
addr is less than the first entry, then "hi = mid - 1" will underflow
to ULONG_MAX. Then we have an out-of-bounds read.

Replace the open-coded binary search with bsearch().

Issue found by an LLM.

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c | 33 +++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c
index 32103a270a8e..fab9ae22191a 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
+#include <linux/bsearch.h>
#include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -49,27 +50,23 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(unwind_lock);
static struct unwind_table kernel_unwind_table __ro_after_init;
static LIST_HEAD(unwind_tables);

-static inline const struct unwind_table_entry *
-find_unwind_entry_in_table(const struct unwind_table *table, unsigned long addr)
+static int cmp_unwind_entry(const void *key, const void *elt)
{
- const struct unwind_table_entry *e = NULL;
- unsigned long lo, hi, mid;
+ unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)key;
+ const struct unwind_table_entry *e = elt;

- lo = 0;
- hi = table->length - 1;
-
- while (lo <= hi) {
- mid = (hi - lo) / 2 + lo;
- e = &table->table[mid];
- if (addr < e->region_start)
- hi = mid - 1;
- else if (addr > e->region_end)
- lo = mid + 1;
- else
- return e;
- }
+ if (addr < e->region_start)
+ return -1;
+ if (addr > e->region_end)
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}

- return NULL;
+static inline const struct unwind_table_entry *
+find_unwind_entry_in_table(const struct unwind_table *table, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ return bsearch((void *)addr, table->table, table->length,
+ sizeof(*table->table), cmp_unwind_entry);
}

static const struct unwind_table_entry *
--
2.55.0