netdev - Re: [Patch net 0/3] idr: fix overflow cases on 32-bit CPU

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Date:   Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:16:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dcaratti@...hat.com, chrism@...lanox.com,
        willy@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net 0/3] idr: fix overflow cases on 32-bit CPU

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:03:40 -0700

> idr_get_next_ul() is problematic by design, it can't handle
> the following overflow case well on 32-bit CPU:
> 
> u32 id = UINT_MAX;
> idr_alloc_u32(&id);
> while (idr_get_next_ul(&id) != NULL)
>  id++;
> 
> when 'id' overflows and becomes 0 after UINT_MAX, the loop
> goes infinite.
> 
> Fix this by eliminating external users of idr_get_next_ul()
> and migrating them to idr_for_each_entry_continue_ul(). And
> add an additional parameter for these iteration macros to detect
> overflow properly.
> 
> Please merge this through networking tree, as all the users
> are in networking subsystem.

Series applied, thanks Cong.