Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support

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Hi Christoph,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:43 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 04:57:47PM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The Amiga partition parser module uses signed int for partition sector
> > address and count, which will overflow for disks larger than 1 TB.
> >
> > Use u64 as type for sector address and size to allow using disks up to
> > 2 TB without LBD support, and disks larger than 2 TB with LBD. The RBD
> > format allows to specify disk sizes up to 2^128 bytes (though native
> > OS limitations reduce this somewhat, to max 2^68 bytes), so check for
> > u64 overflow carefully to protect against overflowing sector_t.
> >
> > Bail out if sector addresses overflow 32 bits on kernels without LBD
> > support.
> >
> > This bug was reported originally in 2012, and the fix was created by
> > the RDB author, Joanne Dow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. A patch had been
> > discussed and reviewed on linux-m68k at that time but never officially
> > submitted (now resubmitted as separate patch).
> > This patch adds additional error checking and warning messages.
> >
> > Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511
> > Reported-by: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Message-ID: <201206192146.09327.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > --- a/block/partitions/amiga.c
> > +++ b/block/partitions/amiga.c

> >               if (!data) {
> > -                     pr_err("Dev %s: unable to read RDB block %d\n",
> > -                            state->disk->disk_name, blk);
> > +                     pr_err("Dev %s: unable to read RDB block %llu\n",
> > +                            state->disk->disk_name, (u64) blk);
>
> No need for the various printk casts, a sector_t is always an
> unsigned long long.

That is true, as of commit 72deb455b5ec619f
("block: remove CONFIG_LBDAF") in v5.2.
Since 4.9, 4.14, and 4.19 are still receiving stable updates, the
cast should be re-added when this is backported.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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