Re: [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow

[Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

>  	/*
>  	 * This is, logically, a pointer to an array of struct
> @@ -980,9 +986,12 @@ extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR
>
>  static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
>  {
> -	if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
> +	unsigned long idx = SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr);
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
> +
> +	if (idx >=NR_SECTION_ROOTS || !mem_section[idx])
>  		return NULL;
> -	return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
> +	return &mem_section[idx][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
>  }
>  extern int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms);
>  extern unsigned long usemap_size(void);

Not that you are adding code to numerous hot code path. Plus this is a
frequently used inline. Code size is going to increase if you do this.

I would think that the code does not have the tests because of performance
and code size concerns. Can we just say that a sane nr must be passed to
__nr_section?