On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:00:04PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 12-11-19 18:22:41, Matthew Bobrowski wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:35:44PM -0800, coverity-bot wrote: > > > This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity > > > from a scan of next-20191108 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project: > > > https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan > > > > > > You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified > > > lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits: > > > > > > 378f32bab371 ("ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure") > > > > > > Coverity reported the following: > > > > > > *** CID 1487841: Integer handling issues (OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN) > > > /fs/ext4/inode.c: 3388 in ext4_iomap_alloc() > > > 3382 /* > > > 3383 * We use i_size instead of i_disksize here because delalloc writeback > > > 3384 * can complete at any point during the I/O and subsequently push the > > > 3385 * i_disksize out to i_size. This could be beyond where direct I/O is > > > 3386 * happening and thus expose allocated blocks to direct I/O reads. > > > 3387 */ > > > vvv CID 1487841: Integer handling issues (OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN) > > > vvv Potentially overflowing expression "1 << blkbits" with type "int" (32 bits, signed) is evaluated using 32-bit arithmetic, and then used in a context that expects an expression of type "loff_t" (64 bits, signed). > > > 3388 else if ((map->m_lblk * (1 << blkbits)) >= i_size_read(inode)) > > > 3389 m_flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE; > > > 3390 else if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) > > > 3391 m_flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT; > > > > In the event of an overflow in this specific context, I don't think it > > would matter too much to be perfectly honest. If 'blkbits' were to > > actually ever push out the signed integer to a value that couldn't be > > represented by this data type, I would expect the resulting wrapping > > behaviour to _only_ affect how filesystem blocks are allocated. In > > that case, I/O workloads would behave alot differently, and at that > > point I would hope that our filesystem related testing infrastructure > > would pick this up before allowing anything to leak out into the > > wild... > > > > Unless my trail of thought is wrong? Happy to be corrected here and > > educated on this. > > Fully agreed. blkbits is never expected to be larger than 16 in this code. > So this is false positive. Thanks for looking into this! Is it worth changing the type to u8 or something? -- Kees Cook
