[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] Fix type mismatch calculating new line program offset in debugedit.c.

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Mon Jan 22 15:55:51 UTC 2018


edit_dwarf2 calculates the (new) offset in the line program by
taking the difference between the old and new idx, which are of type
size_t (unsigned), plus the size_diff of the header given as ssize_t
(signed), and adding that to the current r_offset, which is an Elf64_Addr
(unsigned). On 64bit architectures, where the size of Elf64_Addr and
ssize_t are the same this isn't a problem. But on 32bit architectures,
where the size of ssize_t is smaller than Elf64_Addr the smaller signed
result gets promoted to an unsigned long first causing issues if the
size_diff was negative.

This would have been caught by gcc -Wsign-conversion

warning: conversion to ‘long unsigned int’ from ‘ssize_t’ {aka ‘long int’}
may change the sign of the result

But enabling this by default gives a lot of false positives.

Found and fixed by Richard Biener <rguenther at suse.de>.
---
 tools/debugedit.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/debugedit.c b/tools/debugedit.c
index fa47aa5..e0b1d98 100644
--- a/tools/debugedit.c
+++ b/tools/debugedit.c
@@ -2154,9 +2154,9 @@ edit_dwarf2 (DSO *dso)
 		      /* Offset (pointing into the line program) moves
 			 from old to new index including the header
 			 size diff. */
-		      r_offset += ((dso->lines.table[lndx].new_idx
-				    - dso->lines.table[lndx].old_idx)
-				   + dso->lines.table[lndx].size_diff);
+		      r_offset += (ssize_t)((dso->lines.table[lndx].new_idx
+					     - dso->lines.table[lndx].old_idx)
+					    + dso->lines.table[lndx].size_diff);
 
 		      if (rtype == SHT_RELA)
 			{
-- 
1.8.3.1



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