tree 73741ce9475852c6dc786ea151f09b9fb1e56783
parent 74177f55b70e2f2be770dd28684dd6d17106a4ba
author Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> 1462484283 -0400
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1462484283 -0400

ext4: address UBSAN warning in mb_find_order_for_block()

Currently, in mb_find_order_for_block(), there's a loop like the following:

  while (order <= e4b->bd_blkbits + 1) {
    ...
    bb += 1 << (e4b->bd_blkbits - order);
  }

Note that the updated bb is used in the loop's next iteration only.

However, at the last iteration, that is at order == e4b->bd_blkbits + 1,
the shift count becomes negative (c.f. C99 6.5.7(3)) and UBSAN reports

  UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1281:11
  shift exponent -1 is negative
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff818c4d35>] dump_stack+0xbc/0x117
   [<ffffffff818c4c79>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x169/0x169
   [<ffffffff819411bb>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x4e
   [<ffffffff81941cbc>] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1fb/0x254
   [<ffffffff81941ac1>] ? __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x158/0x158
   [<ffffffff816e93a0>] ? ext4_mb_generate_from_pa+0x590/0x590
   [<ffffffff816502c8>] ? ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x598/0xe80
   [<ffffffff816e7b7e>] mb_find_order_for_block+0x1ce/0x240
   [...]

Unless compilers start to do some fancy transformations (which at least
GCC 6.0.0 doesn't currently do), the issue is of cosmetic nature only: the
such calculated value of bb is never used again.

Silence UBSAN by introducing another variable, bb_incr, holding the next
increment to apply to bb and adjust that one by right shifting it by one
position per loop iteration.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114701
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112161

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>