[PATCH] inetdevice: fixed signed integer overflow

From: Vincent BENAYOUN
Date: Thu Nov 13 2014 - 07:47:26 EST


There could be a signed overflow in the following code.

The expression, (32-logmask) is comprised between 0 and 31 included.
It may be equal to 31.
In such a case the left shift will produce a signed integer overflow.
According to the C99 Standard, this is an undefined behavior.
A simple fix is to replace the signed int 1 with the unsigned int 1U.

Best Regards,
Vincent Benayoun
R&D engineer @ TrustInSoft

Signed-off-by: Vincent BENAYOUN <vincent.benayoun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/inetdevice.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/inetdevice.h b/include/linux/inetdevice.h
index 0068708..0a21fbe 100644
--- a/include/linux/inetdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/inetdevice.h
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ static inline void in_dev_put(struct in_device *idev)
static __inline__ __be32 inet_make_mask(int logmask)
{
if (logmask)
- return htonl(~((1<<(32-logmask))-1));
+ return htonl(~((1U<<(32-logmask))-1));
return 0;
}

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