On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:49:52PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c > index a59778946404..4986545beef9 100644 > +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c > @@ -554,13 +554,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_alloc_table_from_pages); > #ifdef CONFIG_SGL_ALLOC > > /** > - * sgl_alloc_order - allocate a scatterlist and its pages > + * sgl_alloc_order - allocate a scatterlist with equally sized elements > * @length: Length in bytes of the scatterlist. Must be at least one > - * @order: Second argument for alloc_pages() > + * @order: Second argument for alloc_pages(). Each sgl element size will > + * be (PAGE_SIZE*2^order) bytes > * @chainable: Whether or not to allocate an extra element in the scatterlist > - * for scatterlist chaining purposes > + * for scatterlist chaining purposes > * @gfp: Memory allocation flags > - * @nent_p: [out] Number of entries in the scatterlist that have pages > + * @nent_p: [out] Number of entries in the scatterlist that have pages. > + * Ignored if NULL is given. > * > * Returns: A pointer to an initialized scatterlist or %NULL upon failure. > */ > @@ -574,8 +576,8 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long long length, > u32 elem_len; > > nent = round_up(length, PAGE_SIZE << order) >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order); > - /* Check for integer overflow */ > - if (length > (nent << (PAGE_SHIFT + order))) > + /* Integer overflow if: length > nent*2^(PAGE_SHIFT+order) */ > + if (ilog2(length) > ilog2(nent) + PAGE_SHIFT + order) > return NULL; > nalloc = nent; > if (chainable) { This is a little bit too tortured now, how about this: if (length >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order) >= UINT_MAX) return NULL; nent = length >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order); if (length & ((1ULL << (PAGE_SHIFT + order)) - 1)) nent++; if (chainable) { if (check_add_overflow(nent, 1, &nalloc)) return NULL; } else nalloc = nent; Jason