[PATCH] watchdog: aspeed: fix integer overflow in set_timeout handler
Guenter Roeck
linux at roeck-us.net
Fri Apr 16 02:47:50 BST 2021
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 06:04:45PM -0700, Tao Ren wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 05:50:32PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 4/15/21 5:12 PM, rentao.bupt at gmail.com wrote:
> > > From: Tao Ren <rentao.bupt at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Fix the time comparison (timeout vs. max_hw_heartbeat_ms) in set_timeout
> > > handler to avoid potential integer overflow when the supplied timeout is
> > > greater than aspeed's maximum allowed timeout (4294 seconds).
> > >
> > > Fixes: efa859f7d786 ("watchdog: Add Aspeed watchdog driver")
> > > Reported-by: Amithash Prasad <amithash at fb.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Tao Ren <rentao.bupt at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/watchdog/aspeed_wdt.c | 5 ++---
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/aspeed_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/aspeed_wdt.c
> > > index 7e00960651fa..9f77272dc906 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/watchdog/aspeed_wdt.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/aspeed_wdt.c
> > > @@ -145,9 +145,8 @@ static int aspeed_wdt_set_timeout(struct watchdog_device *wdd,
> > > struct aspeed_wdt *wdt = to_aspeed_wdt(wdd);
> > > u32 actual;
> > >
> > > - wdd->timeout = timeout;
> > > -
> > > - actual = min(timeout, wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms * 1000);
> > > + actual = min(timeout, wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms / 1000);
> > > + wdd->timeout = actual;
> > >
> > > writel(actual * WDT_RATE_1MHZ, wdt->base + WDT_RELOAD_VALUE);
> > > writel(WDT_RESTART_MAGIC, wdt->base + WDT_RESTART);
> > >
> >
> > If the provided timeout is larger than the supported hardware timeout,
> > the watchdog core will ping the hardware on behalf of userspace.
> > The above code would defeat that mechanism for no good reason.
> >
> > NACK.
> >
> > Guenter
>
> Thanks Guenter for Joel for the quick review!
>
> The integer overflow happens at (actual * WDT_RATE_1MHZ). For example,
> if a user tries to set timeout to 4295 seconds, then the hardware would
> be programmed to timeout after about 32 milliseconds. I would say this
> behavior is not expected?
The fix would be
- actual = min(timeout, wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms * 1000);
+ actual = min(timeout, wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms / 1000);
without modifying
wdd->timeout = timeout;
The real problem here is that "wdd->max_hw_heartbeat_ms * 1000"
is simply wrong. The overflow is a side effect of the wrong
calculation, and concentrating on it disguises the real problem.
Guenter
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