Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] block: fix signed int overflow in Amiga partition support

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On Sep 30 2018, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

@@ -100,17 +101,17 @@ int amiga_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
 
 		/* Tell Kernel about it */
 
-		nr_sects = (be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[10]) + 1 -
-			    be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[9])) *
+		nr_sects = (sector_t) ((be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[10])
+			   + 1 - be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[9])) *
 			   be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[3]) *
 			   be32_to_cpu(pb->pb_Environment[5]) *
-			   blksize;
+			   blksize);

That doesn't fix any signed int overflow.  If you want to do calculation
in sector_t you need to cast at least one operand to sector_t.  In this
form the cast is useless.

Andreas.

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