Re: [PATCH RFC 01/17] lib/crc: add crc32c_flip_range() for incremental CRC update
Baokun Li <[email protected]> Sun, 10 May 2026 17:44:27 +0800
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在 2026/5/9 04:40, [email protected] 写道: > Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider: > - [High] Integer overflow in `bit_off + nbits` bypasses bounds checks, leading to out-of-bounds kernel memory reads. > -- > > commit 23c49b9c6860184b707e1c64499ef573ebaa8332 > Author: Baokun Li <[email protected]> > > lib/crc: add crc32c_flip_range() for incremental CRC update > > This commit introduces crc32c_flip_range() to compute a CRC32c delta for > flipped bits using precomputed GF(2) shift matrices. It gives O(log N) > complexity for incremental updates, which is useful for situations like > bitmap updates in filesystems. > >> diff --git a/lib/crc/crc32c-incr.c b/lib/crc/crc32c-incr.c >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000000000..b6258231cc0df >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/lib/crc/crc32c-incr.c > [ ... ] >> +u32 crc32c_flip_range(u32 old_crc, u32 total_bits, >> + u32 bit_off, u32 nbits) >> +{ >> + u32 delta, trailing_bits; >> + >> + if (!nbits) >> + return old_crc; >> + >> + /* >> + * total_bits must not exceed 2^INCR_MAX_ORDER bits (64KB). >> + * bit_off + nbits must not exceed total_bits. >> + */ >> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(total_bits > (1UL << INCR_MAX_ORDER))) >> + return old_crc; >> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bit_off + nbits > total_bits)) > Could this addition overflow since both bit_off and nbits are u32? > > If an external caller provides a very large nbits (such as 0xFFFFFFFF) and > a small bit_off, their sum wraps around to a small value, which passes the > greater-than total_bits check. > > If this occurs, the function proceeds to call crc32c_incr_get_ones_delta() > with the large nbits value: > >> + return old_crc; >> + >> + trailing_bits = total_bits - (bit_off + nbits); >> + >> + /* 1. Calculate CRC of the flip-mask (all 1s of length nbits) */ >> + delta = crc32c_incr_get_ones_delta(nbits); > Is it possible this leads to an out-of-bounds read? > > Looking at crc32c_incr_get_ones_delta(), passing a large nbits like > 0xFFFFFFFF results in __fls(num_bits) evaluating to 31. This would be used > to access indexes in crc32c_incr_ones_lookup[] (size 20) and > crc32c_incr_nibble_table[] (size 19), reading past the end of the arrays. > > A bounds check like nbits > total_bits || bit_off > total_bits - nbits > might prevent this overflow. > > Indeed, I will fix this issue in the next version. Thanks, Baokun