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Thu, 09 May 2019 15:58:46 +0000 To: James Bottomley , Hannes Reinecke , Sathya Prakash , Chaitra P B , Suganath Prabu Subramani , MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20190504164010.24937-1-colin.king@canonical.com> <1557027274.2821.2.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1557325468.3196.2.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <9b4c84b5-31eb-6068-57c2-80ededc21b43@suse.de> <1557416545.4268.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: Colin Ian King Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=colin.king@canonical.com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQINBE6TJCgBEACo6nMNvy06zNKj5tiwDsXXS+LhT+LwtEsy9EnraKYXAf2xwazcICSjX06e fanlyhB0figzQO0n/tP7BcfMVNG7n1+DC71mSyRK1ZERcG1523ajvdZOxbBCTvTitYOy3bjs +LXKqeVMhK3mRvdTjjmVpWnWqJ1LL+Hn12ysDVVfkbtuIm2NoaSEC8Ae8LSSyCMecd22d9Pn LR4UeFgrWEkQsqROq6ZDJT9pBLGe1ZS0pVGhkRyBP9GP65oPev39SmfAx9R92SYJygCy0pPv BMWKvEZS/7bpetPNx6l2xu9UvwoeEbpzUvH26PHO3DDAv0ynJugPCoxlGPVf3zcfGQxy3oty dNTWkP6Wh3Q85m+AlifgKZudjZLrO6c+fAw/jFu1UMjNuyhgShtFU7NvEzL3RqzFf9O1qM2m uj83IeFQ1FZ65QAiCdTa3npz1vHc7N4uEQBUxyXgXfCI+A5yDnjHwzU0Y3RYS52TA3nfa08y LGPLTf5wyAREkFYou20vh5vRvPASoXx6auVf1MuxokDShVhxLpryBnlKCobs4voxN54BUO7m zuERXN8kadsxGFzItAyfKYzEiJrpUB1yhm78AecDyiPlMjl99xXk0zs9lcKriaByVUv/NsyJ FQj/kmdxox3XHi9K29kopFszm1tFiDwCFr/xumbZcMY17Yi2bQARAQABtCVDb2xpbiBLaW5n IDxjb2xpbi5raW5nQGNhbm9uaWNhbC5jb20+iQI2BBMBCAAhBQJOkyQoAhsDBQsJCAcDBRUK CQgLBRYCAwEAAh4BAheAAAoJEGjCh9/GqAImsBcP9i6C/qLewfi7iVcOwqF9avfGzOPf7CVr n8CayQnlWQPchmGKk6W2qgnWI2YLIkADh53TS0VeSQ7Tetj8f1gV75eP0Sr/oT/9ovn38QZ2 vN8hpZp0GxOUrzkvvPjpH+zdmKSaUsHGp8idfPpZX7XeBO0yojAs669+3BrnBcU5wW45SjSV nfmVj1ZZj3/yBunb+hgNH1QRcm8ZPICpjvSsGFClTdB4xu2AR28eMiL/TTg9k8Gt72mOvhf0 fS0/BUwcP8qp1TdgOFyiYpI8CGyzbfwwuGANPSupGaqtIRVf+/KaOdYUM3dx/wFozZb93Kws gXR4z6tyvYCkEg3x0Xl9BoUUyn9Jp5e6FOph2t7TgUvv9dgQOsZ+V9jFJplMhN1HPhuSnkvP 5/PrX8hNOIYuT/o1AC7K5KXQmr6hkkxasjx16PnCPLpbCF5pFwcXc907eQ4+b/42k+7E3fDA Erm9blEPINtt2yG2UeqEkL+qoebjFJxY9d4r8PFbEUWMT+t3+dmhr/62NfZxrB0nTHxDVIia u8xM+23iDRsymnI1w0R78yaa0Eea3+f79QsoRW27Kvu191cU7QdW1eZm05wO8QUvdFagVVdW Zg2DE63Fiin1AkGpaeZG9Dw8HL3pJAJiDe0KOpuq9lndHoGHs3MSa3iyQqpQKzxM6sBXWGfk EkK5Ag0ETpMkKAEQAMX6HP5zSoXRHnwPCIzwz8+inMW7mJ60GmXSNTOCVoqExkopbuUCvinN 4Tg+AnhnBB3R1KTHreFGoz3rcV7fmJeut6CWnBnGBtsaW5Emmh6gZbO5SlcTpl7QDacgIUuT v1pgewVHCcrKiX0zQDJkcK8FeLUcB2PXuJd6sJg39kgsPlI7R0OJCXnvT/VGnd3XPSXXoO4K cr5fcjsZPxn0HdYCvooJGI/Qau+imPHCSPhnX3WY/9q5/WqlY9cQA8tUC+7mgzt2VMjFft1h rp/CVybW6htm+a1d4MS4cndORsWBEetnC6HnQYwuC4bVCOEg9eXMTv88FCzOHnMbE+PxxHzW 3Gzor/QYZGcis+EIiU6hNTwv4F6fFkXfW6611JwfDUQCAHoCxF3B13xr0BH5d2EcbNB6XyQb IGngwDvnTyKHQv34wE+4KtKxxyPBX36Z+xOzOttmiwiFWkFp4c2tQymHAV70dsZTBB5Lq06v 6nJs601Qd6InlpTc2mjd5mRZUZ48/Y7i+vyuNVDXFkwhYDXzFRotO9VJqtXv8iqMtvS4xPPo 2DtJx6qOyDE7gnfmk84IbyDLzlOZ3k0p7jorXEaw0bbPN9dDpw2Sh9TJAUZVssK119DJZXv5 2BSc6c+GtMqkV8nmWdakunN7Qt/JbTcKlbH3HjIyXBy8gXDaEto5ABEBAAGJAh8EGAEIAAkF Ak6TJCgCGwwACgkQaMKH38aoAiZ4lg/+N2mkx5vsBmcsZVd3ys3sIsG18w6RcJZo5SGMxEBj t1UgyIXWI9lzpKCKIxKx0bskmEyMy4tPEDSRfZno/T7p1mU7hsM4owi/ic0aGBKP025Iok9G LKJcooP/A2c9dUV0FmygecRcbIAUaeJ27gotQkiJKbi0cl2gyTRlolKbC3R23K24LUhYfx4h pWj8CHoXEJrOdHO8Y0XH7059xzv5oxnXl2SD1dqA66INnX+vpW4TD2i+eQNPgfkECzKzGj+r KRfhdDZFBJj8/e131Y0t5cu+3Vok1FzBwgQqBnkA7dhBsQm3V0R8JTtMAqJGmyOcL+JCJAca 3Yi81yLyhmYzcRASLvJmoPTsDp2kZOdGr05Dt8aGPRJL33Jm+igfd8EgcDYtG6+F8MCBOult TTAu+QAijRPZv1KhEJXwUSke9HZvzo1tNTlY3h6plBsBufELu0mnqQvHZmfa5Ay99dF+dL1H WNp62+mTeHsX6v9EACH4S+Cw9Q1qJElFEu9/1vFNBmGY2vDv14gU2xEiS2eIvKiYl/b5Y85Q QLOHWV8up73KK5Qq/6bm4BqVd1rKGI9un8kezUQNGBKre2KKs6wquH8oynDP/baoYxEGMXBg GF/qjOC6OY+U7kNUW3N/A7J3M2VdOTLu3hVTzJMZdlMmmsg74azvZDV75dUigqXcwjE= Subject: Re: [PATCH] mptsas: fix undefined behaviour of a shift of an int by more than 31 places Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 16:58:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1557416545.4268.22.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/05/2019 16:42, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 17:30 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> On 5/8/19 4:24 PM, James Bottomley wrote: >>> On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 14:07 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote: >>>> On 05/05/2019 04:34, James Bottomley wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 2019-05-04 at 17:40 +0100, Colin King wrote: >>>>>> From: Colin Ian King >>>>>> >>>>>> Currently the shift of int value 1 by more than 31 places can >>>>>> result in undefined behaviour. Fix this by making the 1 a ULL >>>>>> value before the shift operation. >>>>> >>>>> Fusion SAS is pretty ancient. I thought the largest one ever >>>>> produced had four phys, so how did you produce the overflow? >>>> >>>> This was an issue found by static analysis with Coverity; so I >>>> guess won't happen in the wild, in which case the patch could be >>>> ignored. >>> >>> The point I was more making is that if we thought this could ever >>> happen in practice, we'd need more error handling than simply this: >>> we'd be setting the phy_bitmap to zero which would be every bit as >>> bad as some random illegal value. >>> >> >> Thing is, mptsas is used as the default emulation in VMWare, and >> that does allow you to do some pretty weird configurations (I've >> found myself fixing a bug with SATA hotplug on mptsas once ...). >> So I wouldn't discard this issue out of hand. > > I'm not, I'm just saying the proposed fix is no fix at all since it > would just produce undefined behaviour in the driver. I thought the > issue might have been coming from VMWare, which is why I asked how the > bug was seen. The proper fix is probably to fail attachment if the phy > number goes over a fixed value (16 sounds reasonable) but if it's never > a problem in the field, I'm happy doing nothing because we have no real > idea what the reasonable value is. I'm happy with my proposed fix being ignored and (if required) a more appropriate fix developed by somebody who is more familiar with this code than me. Sometimes it is hard to determine if these static analysis "issues" are fix worthy or not. Colin > > James >