[PATCH] watchdog: aspeed: fix integer overflow in set_timeout handler

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Fri Apr 16 01:50:32 BST 2021


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



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