When the kernel was compiled using the UBSAN option, we saw the following stack trace: [ 1184.827917] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mr.c:349:27 [ 1184.828114] signed integer overflow: [ 1184.828247] -2147483648 - 1 cannot be represented in type 'int' The problem was caused by calling round_up in procedure mlx4_ib_umem_calc_optimal_mtt_size (on line 349, as noted in the stack trace) with the second parameter (1 << block_shift) (which is an int). The second parameter should have been (1ULL << block_shift) (which is an unsigned long long). (1 << block_shift) is treated by the compiler as an int (because 1 is an integer). Now, local variable block_shift is initialized to 31. If block_shift is 31, 1 << block_shift is 1 << 31 = 0x80000000=-214748368. This is the most negative int value. Inside the round_up macro, there is a cast applied to ((1 << 31) - 1). However, this cast is applied AFTER ((1 << 31) - 1) is calculated. Since (1 << 31) is treated as an int, we get the negative overflow identified by UBSAN in the process of calculating ((1 << 31) - 1). The fix is to change (1 << block_shift) to (1ULL << block_shift) on line 349. Fixes: 9901abf58368 ("IB/mlx4: Use optimal numbers of MTT entries") Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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