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SubjectRe: net: integer overflow in ip_idents_reserve
On 12/16/2014 06:09 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, at 22:47, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 16:19 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> > > Hi Eric,
>>> > >
>>> > > While fuzzing with trinity on a -next kernel with the undefined behaviour
>>> > > sanitizer path, I've observed the following warning in code which was
>>> > > introduced in 04ca6973f7 ("ip: make IP identifiers less predictable"):
>> >
>> > This is a false positive.
> Also we compile the whole kernel with -fno-strict-overflow, so every
> report of signed overflow leading to undefined behavior is probably a
> false positive. I don't know if it is worth to try to get rid of them, I
> doubt it.

I reported this one because there's usually some code to handle overflow
in code that expects that and here there was none (I could see).

For example, the ntp code had a few cases where a user could generate
overflows and mess up quite a few things (he got what he asked for -
problems).


Thanks,
Sasha


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