[PATCH] onenand: test before subtraction on unsigned

Roel Kluin roel.kluin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 10:18:45 EST 2009


Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Roel Kluin wrote:
>> len is unsigned so will wrap around when sizeof(struct otp_info) is
>> greater than
>> len.

>> -            len -= sizeof(struct otp_info);
>> -            if (len <= 0) {
>> +            if (len <= sizeof(struct otp_info)) {
>> +                len = 0;
> 
> len is not used anymore, so no need to set it to zero.

Right, updated patch below.

>>                  ret = -ENOSPC;
>>                  break;
>>              }
>> +            len -= sizeof(struct otp_info);

> So is there somewhere that is passing a buffer too small for all the
> opt_info?

I don't know, I found it by code inspection.
------------------------------>8-------------8<---------------------------------
len is unsigned so will wrap around when sizeof(struct otp_info) is greater than
len.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin at gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
index 529af27..1219a18 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
@@ -2296,11 +2296,11 @@ static int onenand_otp_walk(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len,
 		if (!action) {	/* OTP Info functions */
 			struct otp_info *otpinfo;
 
-			len -= sizeof(struct otp_info);
-			if (len <= 0) {
+			if (len <= sizeof(struct otp_info)) {
 				ret = -ENOSPC;
 				break;
 			}
+			len -= sizeof(struct otp_info);
 
 			otpinfo = (struct otp_info *) buf;
 			otpinfo->start = from;



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