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* [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()
@ 2011-12-01  9:20 Xi Wang
  2011-12-01  9:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Xi Wang @ 2011-12-01  9:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Mel Gorman, Minchan Kim, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki,
	Johannes Weiner
  Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel

total_scan is unsigned long, so the overflow check (total_scan < 0)
didn't work.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index a1893c0..46a04e7 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
 		delta *= max_pass;
 		do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
 		total_scan += delta;
-		if (total_scan < 0) {
+		if ((long)total_scan < 0) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to "
 			       "delete nr=%ld\n",
 			       shrinker->shrink, total_scan);
-- 
1.7.5.4


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* Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()
  2011-12-01  9:20 [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab() Xi Wang
@ 2011-12-01  9:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  2011-12-01  9:57   ` Xi Wang
  2011-12-01 20:54   ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki @ 2011-12-01  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Xi Wang
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Mel Gorman, Minchan Kim, Johannes Weiner,
	linux-mm, linux-kernel

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:20:34 -0500
Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> wrote:

> total_scan is unsigned long, so the overflow check (total_scan < 0)
> didn't work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>

Nice catch but.... the 'total_scan" shouldn't be long ?
Rather than type casting ?

Thanks,
-Kame
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index a1893c0..46a04e7 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
>  		delta *= max_pass;
>  		do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
>  		total_scan += delta;
> -		if (total_scan < 0) {
> +		if ((long)total_scan < 0) {
>  			printk(KERN_ERR "shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to "
>  			       "delete nr=%ld\n",
>  			       shrinker->shrink, total_scan);
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
> 
> 

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* Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()
  2011-12-01  9:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
@ 2011-12-01  9:57   ` Xi Wang
  2011-12-01 20:54   ` Andrew Morton
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Xi Wang @ 2011-12-01  9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Mel Gorman, Minchan Kim, Johannes Weiner,
	linux-mm, linux-kernel

On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:32 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Nice catch but.... the 'total_scan" shouldn't be long ?
> Rather than type casting ?

Could be..  I am just trying to avoid signed integer overflow like
"total_scan += delta" in that case, which is undefined, even though
the kernel is compiled with -fno-strict-overflow.

- xi

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* Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()
  2011-12-01  9:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  2011-12-01  9:57   ` Xi Wang
@ 2011-12-01 20:54   ` Andrew Morton
  2011-12-02  2:00     ` Xi Wang
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2011-12-01 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  Cc: Xi Wang, Mel Gorman, Minchan Kim, Johannes Weiner, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:32:02 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > total_scan is unsigned long, so the overflow check (total_scan < 0)
> > didn't work.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
> 
> Nice catch but.... the 'total_scan" shouldn't be long ?
> Rather than type casting ?

Konstantin Khlebnikov's "vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling"
does change it to `long'.  That patch is in -mm and linux-next and is
queued for 3.3.  It was queued for 3.2 but didn't make it due to some
me/Dave Chinner confusion.


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* Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()
  2011-12-01 20:54   ` Andrew Morton
@ 2011-12-02  2:00     ` Xi Wang
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Xi Wang @ 2011-12-02  2:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, Mel Gorman, Minchan Kim, Johannes Weiner,
	linux-mm, linux-kernel

On Dec 1, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Konstantin Khlebnikov's "vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling"
> does change it to `long'.  That patch is in -mm and linux-next and is
> queued for 3.3.  It was queued for 3.2 but didn't make it due to some
> me/Dave Chinner confusion.

I see.  Cool.  Thanks for the pointer.

- xi

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