linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cris: fix integer overflow in ELF_ET_DYN

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:37:02 +0100
From:	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>
Cc:	Mikael Starvik <starvik@...s.com>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jespern@...s.com>, linux-cris-kernel@...s.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Yury Gribov <y.gribov@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cris: fix integer overflow in ELF_ET_DYN_BASE

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:31:23PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> Almost all arches define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE as 2/3 of TASK_SIZE.
> Though it seems that some architectures do this in a wrong way.
> The problem is that 2*TASK_SIZE may overflow 32-bits so
> the real ELF_ET_DYN_BASE becomes wrong.
> Fix this overflow by dividing TASK_SIZE prior to multiplying:
> 	(TASK_SIZE / 3 * 2)

Good catch, thanks, added to the CRIS-tree.

> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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