Currently, in ext4_mb_init(), there's a loop like the following:

  do {
    ...
    offset += 1 << (sb->s_blocksize_bits - i);
    i++;
  } while (i <= sb->s_blocksize_bits + 1);

Note that the updated offset is used in the loop's next iteration only.

However, at the last iteration, that is at i == sb->s_blocksize_bits + 1,
the shift count becomes equal to (unsigned)-1 > 31 (c.f. C99 6.5.7(3))
and UBSAN reports

  UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2621:15
  shift exponent 4294967295 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff818c4d25>] dump_stack+0xbc/0x117
   [<ffffffff818c4c69>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x169/0x169
   [<ffffffff819411ab>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x4e
   [<ffffffff81941cac>] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1fb/0x254
   [<ffffffff81941ab1>] ? __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value+0x158/0x158
   [<ffffffff814b6dc1>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x101/0x390
   [<ffffffff816fc13b>] ? ext4_mb_init+0x13b/0xfd0
   [<ffffffff814293c7>] ? create_cache+0x57/0x1f0
   [<ffffffff8142948a>] ? create_cache+0x11a/0x1f0
   [<ffffffff821c2168>] ? mutex_lock+0x38/0x60
   [<ffffffff821c23ab>] ? mutex_unlock+0x1b/0x50
   [<ffffffff814c26ab>] ? put_online_mems+0x5b/0xc0
   [<ffffffff81429677>] ? kmem_cache_create+0x117/0x2c0
   [<ffffffff816fcc49>] ext4_mb_init+0xc49/0xfd0
   [...]

Observe that the mentioned shift exponent, 4294967295, equals (unsigned)-1.

Unless compilers start to do some fancy transformations (which at least
GCC 6.0.0 doesn't currently do), the issue is of cosmetic nature only: the
such calculated value of offset is never used again.

Silence UBSAN by introducing another variable, offset_incr, holding the
next increment to apply to offset and adjust that one by right shifting it
by one position per loop iteration.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114701
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112161



Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>