linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] drm/mipi-dsi: Fix theoretical int overflow in mipi_dsi_generic_write

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 10:15:33 +0200
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, 
	Cong Yang <yangcong5@...qin.corp-partner.google.com>, Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...gle.com>, 
	Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, 
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>, 
	Joel Selvaraj <jo@...amily.in>, lvzhaoxiong@...qin.corp-partner.google.com, 
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, 
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] drm/mipi-dsi: Fix theoretical int overflow in mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq()

On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:43 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:

> The mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq() macro makes a call to
> mipi_dsi_generic_write() which returns a type ssize_t. The macro then
> stores it in an int and checks to see if it's negative. This could
> theoretically be a problem if "ssize_t" is larger than "int".
>
> To see the issue, imagine that "ssize_t" is 32-bits and "int" is
> 16-bits, you could see a problem if there was some code out there that
> looked like:
>
>   mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq(dsi, <32768 bytes as arguments>);
>
> ...since we'd get back that 32768 bytes were transferred and 32768
> stored in a 16-bit int would look negative.
>
> Though there are no callsites where we'd actually hit this (even if
> "int" was only 16-bit), it's cleaner to make the types match so let's
> fix it.
>
> Fixes: a9015ce59320 ("drm/mipi-dsi: Add a mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq() macro")
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij