[PATCH] accel/qaic: Clean up integer overflow checking in map_user_pages()
Jeffrey Hugo
quic_jhugo at quicinc.com
Tue Aug 15 15:53:53 UTC 2023
On 8/10/2023 6:23 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The encode_dma() function has some validation on in_trans->size but it
> would be more clear to move those checks to find_and_map_user_pages().
>
> The encode_dma() had two checks:
>
> if (in_trans->addr + in_trans->size < in_trans->addr || !in_trans->size)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> The in_trans->addr variable is the starting address. The in_trans->size
> variable is the total size of the transfer. The transfer can occur in
> parts and the resources->xferred_dma_size tracks how many bytes we have
> already transferred.
>
> This patch introduces a new variable "remaining" which represents the
> amount we want to transfer (in_trans->size) minus the amount we have
> already transferred (resources->xferred_dma_size).
>
> I have modified the check for if in_trans->size is zero to instead check
> if in_trans->size is less than resources->xferred_dma_size. If we have
> already transferred more bytes than in_trans->size then there are negative
> bytes remaining which doesn't make sense. If there are zero bytes
> remaining to be copied, just return success.
>
> The check in encode_dma() checked that "addr + size" could not overflow
> and barring a driver bug that should work, but it's easier to check if
> we do this in parts. First check that "in_trans->addr +
> resources->xferred_dma_size" is safe. Then check that "xfer_start_addr +
> remaining" is safe.
>
> My final concern was that we are dealing with u64 values but on 32bit
> systems the kmalloc() function will truncate the sizes to 32 bits. So
> I calculated "total = in_trans->size + offset_in_page(xfer_start_addr);"
> and returned -EINVAL if it were >= SIZE_MAX. This will not affect 64bit
> systems.
>
> Fixes: 129776ac2e38 ("accel/qaic: Add control path")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
Pushed to drm-misc-fixes
-Jeff
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