* [PATCH] mm: fadvise: avoid signed integer overflow calculating offset
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@ 2014-12-02 4:04 ` Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2014-12-02 4:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Sasha Levin, open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT
Both offset and len are signed integers who's overflow isn't defined. Use
unsigned addition to avoid the issue.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---
mm/fadvise.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index 3bcfd81d..762cb63 100644
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice)
}
/* Careful about overflows. Len == 0 means "as much as possible" */
- endbyte = offset + len;
+ endbyte = offset + (u64)len;
if (!len || endbyte < len)
endbyte = -1;
else
--
1.7.10.4
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