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From: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:02:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5165008C.1000504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365561717-12343-3-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com>

On 04/10/2013 10:41 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> +	if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size ||
> +	    ((active_size + size + VAR_METADATA_SIZE > storage_size / 2) &&
> +	     (remaining_size - size - VAR_METADATA_SIZE < storage_size / 2)))

This could overflow.

(u64)32768 - (u64)32768 - VAR_METADATA_SIZE < (u64)65536 / 2 == false

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-10  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-10  2:41 [PATCH 1/3] efi: Determine how much space is used by boot services-only variables Matthew Garrett
2013-04-10  2:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] Revert "x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code" Matthew Garrett
2013-04-10  2:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space Matthew Garrett
2013-04-10  6:02   ` Lingzhu Xiang [this message]
2013-04-10 17:46 ` [PATCH V4 1/3] efi: Determine how much space is used by boot services-only variables Matthew Garrett
2013-04-10 17:46   ` [PATCH V4 2/3] Revert "x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code" Matthew Garrett
2013-04-11 13:24     ` Matt Fleming
2013-04-11 13:30       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-04-10 17:46   ` [PATCH V4 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space Matthew Garrett
2013-04-12 10:16   ` [PATCH V4 1/3] efi: Determine how much space is used by boot services-only variables Lingzhu Xiang
2013-04-12 10:22     ` Matt Fleming
2013-04-12 12:19   ` Lingzhu Xiang
2013-04-15 15:53 ` [PATCH V5 1/2] efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code Matthew Garrett
2013-04-15 15:53   ` [PATCH V5 2/2] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space Matthew Garrett
2013-04-15 20:09 ` Fix UEFI variable paranoia Matthew Garrett
2013-04-15 20:09   ` [PATCH V6 1/3] Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename Matthew Garrett
2013-04-15 20:09   ` [PATCH V6 2/3] efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code Matthew Garrett
2013-04-22 15:03     ` Paul Bolle
2013-04-15 20:09   ` [PATCH V6 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space Matthew Garrett
2013-04-16 14:31     ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING Sergey Vlasov
2013-04-16 14:31       ` [PATCH 2/2] efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko Sergey Vlasov
2013-04-16 16:39         ` Matt Fleming
2013-04-16 16:39       ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING Matt Fleming
2013-04-17 10:49     ` [PATCH V6 3/3] efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space Lingzhu Xiang
2013-04-24 10:08     ` joeyli
2013-04-24 10:14       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-04-24 10:59         ` joeyli
2013-04-24 11:57           ` Matthew Garrett
2013-04-24 13:23             ` joeyli
2013-04-16 10:15   ` Fix UEFI variable paranoia Matt Fleming

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