[libvirt] [PATCH 4/7] util: Data overrun may lead to divide by zero

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Fri Sep 28 15:28:07 UTC 2018


Commit 87a8a30d6 added the function based on the virsh function,
but used an unsigned long long instead of a double and thus that
limits the maximum result.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virutil.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/virutil.c b/src/util/virutil.c
index b5b949ab22..c0783ecb28 100644
--- a/src/util/virutil.c
+++ b/src/util/virutil.c
@@ -491,6 +491,10 @@ virFormatIntDecimal(char *buf, size_t buflen, int val)
  *
  * Similar to vshPrettyCapacity, but operates on integers and not doubles
  *
+ * NB: Since using unsigned long long, we are limited to at most a "PiB"
+ *     to make pretty. This is because a PiB is 1152921504606846976 bytes,
+ *     but that value * 1024 > ULLONG_MAX value 18446744073709551615 bytes.
+ *
  * Returns shortened value that can be used with @unit.
  */
 unsigned long long
@@ -524,12 +528,7 @@ virFormatIntPretty(unsigned long long val,
         return val / (limit / 1024);
     }
     limit *= 1024;
-    if (val % limit) {
-        *unit = "PiB";
-        return val / (limit / 1024);
-    }
-    limit *= 1024;
-    *unit = "EiB";
+    *unit = "PiB";
     return val / (limit / 1024);
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1




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