linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfio: hisi_acc_vfio_pci: fix integer overflow check in hisi_acc_vf_resume

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:58:24 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Longfang Liu <liulongfang@...wei.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>,
        Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>,
        Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio: hisi_acc_vfio_pci: fix integer overflow check in
 hisi_acc_vf_resume_write()

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 01:18:12PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 08:51:24AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> > > This code was copy and pasted from drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/main.c, so it
> > > should be fixed too
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > I created a static checker warning for this type of thing but it didn't
> > catch the issue in drivers/vfio/pci/mlx5/main.c because Smatch says that
> > the bug is impossible.  Which is true.
> 
> How come it is different?

No, it doesn't find either one.  I don't think it's a real bug because
of the rw_verify_area() thing.  But I wrote the check based on noticing
it during review just to see if there were similar issues and didn't
find anything.

regards,
dan carpenter