kallsyms: fix potential overflow in binary search

This will probably never trigger... but it won't hurt to be careful.

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua Bloch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 6fc0040f3e3abacade62c7d63f74d240974d80fe..38fc10ac75415a8ff4da69b68d90facf61eb5e41 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static unsigned long get_symbol_pos(unsigned long addr,
        high = kallsyms_num_syms;
 
        while (high - low > 1) {
-               mid = (low + high) / 2;
+               mid = low + (high - low) / 2;
                if (kallsyms_addresses[mid] <= addr)
                        low = mid;
                else