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From: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/6] shallow.c: avoid theoretical pointer wrap-around
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2016 19:53:37 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161206125339.16803-5-pclouds@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161206125339.16803-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

From: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

The expression info->free+size is technically undefined behaviour in
exactly the case we want to test for. Moreover, the compiler is likely
to translate the expression to

  (unsigned long)info->free + size > (unsigned long)info->end

where there's at least a theoretical chance that the LHS could wrap
around 0, giving a false negative.

This might as well be written using pointer subtraction avoiding these
issues.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 shallow.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/shallow.c b/shallow.c
index 75e1702..719f699 100644
--- a/shallow.c
+++ b/shallow.c
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static uint32_t *paint_alloc(struct paint_info *info)
 	unsigned nr = (info->nr_bits + 31) / 32;
 	unsigned size = nr * sizeof(uint32_t);
 	void *p;
-	if (!info->pool_count || info->free + size > info->end) {
+	if (!info->pool_count || size > info->end - info->free) {
 		if (size > POOL_SIZE)
 			die("BUG: pool size too small for %d in paint_alloc()",
 			    size);
-- 
2.8.2.524.g6ff3d78


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-06 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 20:31 [PATCH 1/4] shallow.c: make paint_alloc slightly more robust Rasmus Villemoes
2016-12-02 20:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] shallow.c: avoid theoretical pointer wrap-around Rasmus Villemoes
2016-12-03  5:17   ` Jeff King
2016-12-02 20:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] shallow.c: bit manipulation tweaks Rasmus Villemoes
2016-12-03  5:21   ` Jeff King
2016-12-02 20:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] shallow.c: remove useless test Rasmus Villemoes
2016-12-03  5:24   ` Jeff King
2016-12-05 12:00     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-12-03  5:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] shallow.c: make paint_alloc slightly more robust Jeff King
2016-12-05 10:02   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-12-06 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] shallow.c improvements Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-12-06 12:53   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] shallow.c: rename fields in paint_info to better express their purposes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-12-06 12:53   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] shallow.c: stop abusing COMMIT_SLAB_SIZE for paint_info's memory pools Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-12-06 12:53   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] shallow.c: make paint_alloc slightly more robust Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-12-06 12:53   ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [this message]
2016-12-06 12:53   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] shallow.c: bit manipulation tweaks Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-12-06 12:53   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] shallow.c: remove useless code Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-12-06 13:42   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] shallow.c improvements Jeff King
2016-12-06 13:47     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-12-07 23:42       ` Junio C Hamano

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