[nginx] HTTP/2: avoid left-shifting signed integer into the sign bit.

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at nginx.com
Thu Jul 7 18:08:24 UTC 2016


details:   http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/ad736705a744
branches:  
changeset: 6627:ad736705a744
user:      Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at nginx.com>
date:      Thu Jul 07 21:03:21 2016 +0300
description:
HTTP/2: avoid left-shifting signed integer into the sign bit.

On non-aligned platforms, properly cast argument before left-shifting it in
ngx_http_v2_parse_uint32 that is used with u_char.  Otherwise it propagates
to int to hold the value and can step over the sign bit.  Usually, on known
compilers, this results in negation.  Furthermore, a subsequent store into a
wider type, that is ngx_uint_t on 64-bit platforms, results in sign-extension.

In practice, this can be observed in debug log as a very large exclusive bit
value, when client sent PRIORITY frame with exclusive bit set:

: *14 http2 PRIORITY frame sid:5 on 1 excl:8589934591 weight:17

Found with UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.

diffstat:

 src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h |  2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (12 lines):

diff -r b3682580c1bd -r ad736705a744 src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h
--- a/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h	Thu Jul 07 21:02:28 2016 +0300
+++ b/src/http/v2/ngx_http_v2.h	Thu Jul 07 21:03:21 2016 +0300
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ size_t ngx_http_v2_huff_encode(u_char *s
 
 #define ngx_http_v2_parse_uint16(p)  ((p)[0] << 8 | (p)[1])
 #define ngx_http_v2_parse_uint32(p)                                           \
-    ((p)[0] << 24 | (p)[1] << 16 | (p)[2] << 8 | (p)[3])
+    ((uint32_t) (p)[0] << 24 | (p)[1] << 16 | (p)[2] << 8 | (p)[3])
 
 #endif
 



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