linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs/ext4: mb_find_order_for

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Message-Id: <1458417247-3164-1-git-send-email-nicstange@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:54:07 +0100
From:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fs/ext4: mb_find_order_for_block(): silence UBSAN

Currently, in mb_find_order_for_block(), there's a loop like the following:

  while (order <= e4b->bd_blkbits + 1) {
    ...
    bb += 1 << (e4b->bd_blkbits - order);
  }

Note that the updated bb is used in the loop's next iteration only.

However, at the last iteration, that is at order == e4b->bd_blkbits + 1,
the shift count becomes negative (c.f. C99 6.5.7(3)) and UBSAN reports

  UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1281:11
  shift exponent -1 is negative
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff818c4d35>] dump_stack+0xbc/0x117
   [<ffffffff818c4c79>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x169/0x169
   [<ffffffff819411bb>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x4e
   [<ffffffff81941cbc>] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1fb/0x254
   [<ffffffff81941ac1>] ? __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x158/0x158
   [<ffffffff816e93a0>] ? ext4_mb_generate_from_pa+0x590/0x590
   [<ffffffff816502c8>] ? ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x598/0xe80
   [<ffffffff816e7b7e>] mb_find_order_for_block+0x1ce/0x240
   [...]

Unless compilers start to do some fancy transformations (which at least
GCC 4.6.0 doesn't currently do), the issue is of cosmetic nature only: the
such calculated value of bb is never used again.

Silence UBSAN by introducing another variable, bb_incr, holding the next
increment to apply to bb and adjust that one by right shifting it by one
position per loop iteration.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
---
 Applicable to linux-next-20160318

 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 50e05df..4bc89fe 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_unload_buddy(struct ext4_buddy *e4b)
 static int mb_find_order_for_block(struct ext4_buddy *e4b, int block)
 {
 	int order = 1;
+	int bb_incr = 1 << (e4b->bd_blkbits - 1);
 	void *bb;
 
 	BUG_ON(e4b->bd_bitmap == e4b->bd_buddy);
@@ -1278,7 +1279,8 @@ static int mb_find_order_for_block(struct ext4_buddy *e4b, int block)
 			/* this block is part of buddy of order 'order' */
 			return order;
 		}
-		bb += 1 << (e4b->bd_blkbits - order);
+		bb += bb_incr;
+		bb_incr >>= 1;
 		order++;
 	}
 	return 0;
-- 
2.7.3