[libvirt] [PATCH] virrandom: Avoid undefined behaviour in virRandomBits

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Thu Aug 2 07:35:49 UTC 2018


If nbits is 64 (or greater) then shifting 1ULL left is undefined.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virrandom.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/virrandom.c b/src/util/virrandom.c
index 3c011a8615..7915f6531e 100644
--- a/src/util/virrandom.c
+++ b/src/util/virrandom.c
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ uint64_t virRandomBits(int nbits)
         return 0;
     }
 
-    ret &= (1ULL << nbits) - 1;
+    if (nbits < 64)
+        ret &= (1ULL << nbits) - 1;
+
     return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.16.4




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