On 9/20/21 5:25 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> commit fad7cd3310db ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in
> __nbd_ioctl()") raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in
> commit f0907827a8a9 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and
> add fallback code")
>
> ERROR: modpost: "__divdi3" [drivers/block/nbd.ko] undefined!
>
> As Stephen Rothwell notes:
> The added check_mul_overflow() call is being passed 64 bit values.
> COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW is not set for this build (see
> include/linux/overflow.h).
>
> Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a
> multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow,
> __signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when
> !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW. This is problematic for 64b
> operands on 32b hosts.
>
> This was fixed upstream by
> commit 76ae847497bc ("Documentation: raise minimum supported version of
> GCC to 5.1")
> which is not suitable to be backported to stable.
>
> Further, __builtin_mul_overflow() would emit a libcall to a
> compiler-rt-only symbol when compiling with clang < 14 for 32b targets.
>
> ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __mulodi4
>
> In order to keep stable buildable with GCC 4.9 and clang < 14, modify
> struct nbd_config to instead track the number of bits of the block size;
> reconstructing the block size using runtime checked shifts that are not
> problematic for those compilers and in a ways that can be backported to
> stable.
>
> In nbd_set_size, we do validate that the value of blksize must be a
> power of two (POT) and is in the range of [512, PAGE_SIZE] (both
> inclusive).
>
> This does modify the debugfs interface.
Applied, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
