[PATCH 38/82] arm: 3117/1: Refactor intentional wrap-around test

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Mon Jan 22 16:27:13 PST 2024


In an effort to separate intentional arithmetic wrap-around from
unexpected wrap-around, we need to refactor places that depend on this
kind of math. One of the most common code patterns of this is:

	VAR + value < VAR

Notably, this is considered "undefined behavior" for signed and pointer
types, which the kernel works around by using the -fno-strict-overflow
option in the build[1] (which used to just be -fwrapv). Regardless, we
want to get the kernel source to the position where we can meaningfully
instrument arithmetic wrap-around conditions and catch them when they
are unexpected, regardless of whether they are signed[2], unsigned[3],
or pointer[4] types.

Refactor open-coded wrap-around addition test to use add_would_overflow().
This paves the way to enabling the wrap-around sanitizers in the future.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/linus/68df3755e383e6fecf2354a67b08f92f18536594 [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/26 [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/27 [3]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/344 [4]
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.c b/arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.c
index ffa6b438786b..0635b1eda1d3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.c
+++ b/arch/arm/nwfpe/softfloat.c
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ static floatx80
     roundBits = zSig0 & roundMask;
     if ( 0x7FFD <= (bits32) ( zExp - 1 ) ) {
         if (    ( 0x7FFE < zExp )
-             || ( ( zExp == 0x7FFE ) && ( zSig0 + roundIncrement < zSig0 ) )
+             || ( ( zExp == 0x7FFE ) && (add_would_overflow(zSig0, roundIncrement)) )
            ) {
             goto overflow;
         }
-- 
2.34.1




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