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lib/xz: Validate the value before assigning it to an enum variable
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This might matter, for example, if the underlying type of enum xz_check
was a signed char. In such a case the validation wouldn't have caught an
unsupported header. I don't know if this problem can occur in the kernel
on any arch but it's still good to fix it because some people might copy
the XZ code to their own projects from Linux instead of the upstream
XZ Embedded repository.

This change may increase the code size by a few bytes. An alternative
would have been to use an unsigned int instead of enum xz_check but
using an enumeration looks cleaner.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010213145.17462-3-xiang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Larhzu authored and gregkh committed Nov 18, 2021
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c
Expand Up @@ -402,12 +402,12 @@ static enum xz_ret dec_stream_header(struct xz_dec *s)
* we will accept other check types too, but then the check won't
* be verified and a warning (XZ_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK) will be given.
*/
if (s->temp.buf[HEADER_MAGIC_SIZE + 1] > XZ_CHECK_MAX)
return XZ_OPTIONS_ERROR;

s->check_type = s->temp.buf[HEADER_MAGIC_SIZE + 1];

#ifdef XZ_DEC_ANY_CHECK
if (s->check_type > XZ_CHECK_MAX)
return XZ_OPTIONS_ERROR;

if (s->check_type > XZ_CHECK_CRC32)
return XZ_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK;
#else
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