On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:12:04PM +0100, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> Currently, in mb_find_order_for_block(), there's a loop like the following:
>
> while (order <= e4b->bd_blkbits + 1) {
> ...
> bb += 1 << (e4b->bd_blkbits - order);
> }
>
> Note that the updated bb is used in the loop's next iteration only.
>
> However, at the last iteration, that is at order == e4b->bd_blkbits + 1,
> the shift count becomes negative (c.f. C99 6.5.7(3)) and UBSAN reports
>
> UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1281:11
> shift exponent -1 is negative
> [...]
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff818c4d35>] dump_stack+0xbc/0x117
> [<ffffffff818c4c79>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x169/0x169
> [<ffffffff819411bb>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x4e
> [<ffffffff81941cbc>] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1fb/0x254
> [<ffffffff81941ac1>] ? __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x158/0x158
> [<ffffffff816e93a0>] ? ext4_mb_generate_from_pa+0x590/0x590
> [<ffffffff816502c8>] ? ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x598/0xe80
> [<ffffffff816e7b7e>] mb_find_order_for_block+0x1ce/0x240
> [...]
>
> Unless compilers start to do some fancy transformations (which at least
> GCC 6.0.0 doesn't currently do), the issue is of cosmetic nature only: the
> such calculated value of bb is never used again.
>
> Silence UBSAN by introducing another variable, bb_incr, holding the next
> increment to apply to bb and adjust that one by right shifting it by one
> position per loop iteration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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