On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 2:03 PM Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > /* Ensure that abort_ip is not in the critical section. */ > if (rseq_cs->abort_ip - rseq_cs->start_ip < rseq_cs->post_commit_offset) > return -EINVAL; > ... > What underflow issues are you concerned with ? That. Looking closer, it looks like what you want to do is if (rseq_cs->abort_ip >= rseq_cs->start_ip && rseq_cs->abort_ip < rseq_cs->start_ip + rseq_cs->post_commit_offset) but you're not actually verifying that the range you're testing is even vlid, because "rseq_cs->start_ip + rseq_cs->post_commit_offset" could be something invalid that overflowed (or, put another way, the subtraction you did on both sides to get the simplified version underflowed). So to actually get the range check you want, you should check the overflow/underflow condition. Maybe it ends up being if (rseq_cs->start_ip + rseq_cs->post_commit_offset < rseq_cs->start_ip) return -EINVAL; after which your simplified conditional looks fine. But I think you should also do if (rseq_cs->start_ip + rseq_cs->post_commit_offset > TASK_SIZE) return -EINVAL; to make sure the range is valid in the first place. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html