Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][net-next] ice: fix potential infinite loop | From | Colin Ian King <> | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2019 18:12:17 +0100 |
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On 02/08/2019 18:07, Allan, Bruce W wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org] On Behalf >> Of Colin King >> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2019 8:52 AM >> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>; David S . Miller >> <davem@davemloft.net>; intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; >> netdev@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][net-next] ice: fix potential infinite loop >> >> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> >> >> The loop counter of a for-loop is a u8 however this is being compared >> to an int upper bound and this can lead to an infinite loop if the >> upper bound is greater than 255 since the loop counter will wrap back >> to zero. Fix this potential issue by making the loop counter an int. >> >> Addresses-Coverity: ("Infinite loop") > > Actually, num_alloc_vfs should probably be a u16 instead of an int since num_alloc_vfs cannot exceed 256. > > Which Coverity scan reported this and what options are used in the analysis?
One that I run in a private coverity scan with scan analysis cranked up high on linux-next, so the report is not public.
Colin
> >> Fixes: c7aeb4d1b9bf ("ice: Disable VFs until reset is completed") >> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> >> --- >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c >> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c >> index c26e6a102dac..088543d50095 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c >> @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static void >> ice_prepare_for_reset(struct ice_pf *pf) >> { >> struct ice_hw *hw = &pf->hw; >> - u8 i; >> + int i; >> >> /* already prepared for reset */ >> if (test_bit(__ICE_PREPARED_FOR_RESET, pf->state)) >> -- >> 2.20.1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Intel-wired-lan mailing list >> Intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org >> https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-wired-lan
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