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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] macio: fix overflow in lba to offset
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Mark Cave-Ayland |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] macio: fix overflow in lba to offset conversion for ATAPI devices |
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Mon, 4 Jan 2016 20:54:21 +0000 |
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On 04/01/16 20:36, John Snow wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 02:15 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> On 04/01/16 19:04, P J P wrote:
>>
>>> +-- On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote --+
>>> | /* Calculate current offset */
>>> | - offset = (int64_t)(s->lba << 11) + s->io_buffer_index;
>>> | + offset = ((int64_t)(s->lba) << 11) + s->io_buffer_index;
>>>
>>> Maybe ((int64_t)s->lba << 11) ? No parenthesis around s->lba.
>>
>> Yes that works here too (perhaps I was just being over-cautious).
>> Alex/John, please let me know if you want me to resubmit.
>>
>
> PJP's version should work just fine. I won't ask you to resubmit, though...
Great, thanks :)
> ...But, well, while we're here, I have a question for you:
>
> So s->lba is an int that we left shift by 11 for a max of (2^43 - 2^11)
> then we add it against s->io_buffer_index, a uint64_t, so this statement
> could still in theory overflow.
>
> Except not really, since io_buffer_index is bounded (in general) by
> io_buffer_total_len, which is usually (IDE_DMA_BUF_SECTORS*512 + 4) ->
> ~132K.
>
> I don't think there's any rigorous bounds-checking of io_buffer_index,
> just ad-hoc checking when we're good enough to remember to do it. And we
> don't seem to do it anywhere in macio. Is it worth peppering in an
> assert somewhere that io_buffer_index is reasonably small?
The DBDMA engine is limited to 16-bit transfers so the maximum transfer
size is 64K, and s->io_buffer_index is used to hold the current position
within this transfer so unless we get some very large disks I think we
should be okay here?
ATB,
Mark.
Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] macio: fix overflow in lba to offset conversion for ATAPI devices, John Snow, 2016/01/05