Re: [PATCH RFC 2/20] selinux: avtab: avoid implicit conversions

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Jul 18 2023 - 18:01:34 EST


On Jul 6, 2023 =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20G=C3=B6ttsche?= <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Return u32 from avtab_hash() instead of int, since the hashing is done
> on u32 and the result is used as an index on the hash array.
>
> Use the type of the limit in for loops.
>
> Avoid signed to unsigned conversion of multiplication result in
> avtab_hash_eval().
>
> Use unsigned loop iterator for index operations, to avoid sign
> extension.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/avtab.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

See my previous comment about loop iterators.

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