linux-ext4 - possible unintended integer truncation in fs/ext4/extents.c:get_implied_cluster

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Date:	Sat, 14 Dec 2013 23:29:18 +0100
From:	"PaX Team" <pageexec@...email.hu>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
CC:	re.emese@...il.com
Subject: possible unintended integer truncation in fs/ext4/extents.c:get_implied_cluster_alloc

Hello folks,

while running a simple analyzer plugin on linux 3.12.5 written by Emese Revfy
we found a case in ext4 that looks like a potential problem. the code looks
like this:

4082 		map->m_pblk = (ee_start & ~(sbi->s_cluster_ratio - 1)) +
4083 			c_offset;

here the expression ~(sbi->s_cluster_ratio - 1) will first do the negation
on an unsigned int then extend the result to unsigned long long (i.e, there's
a 32->64 bit conversion on both 32 and 64 bit archs) and stores it as such.
now this will obviously lose the higher 32 bits of ee_start and the question
is: is this intended behaviour or a bug? later the code compares map->m_pblk
against ee_block which is as unsigned int only so there's some mixture of
integer types here that may warrant further review.

cheers,
 PaX Team

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