[Asterisk-code-review] strings.h: Avoid overflows in the string hash functions (asterisk[14])

Joshua Colp asteriskteam at digium.com
Wed Apr 12 19:46:21 CDT 2017


Joshua Colp has submitted this change and it was merged. ( https://gerrit.asterisk.org/5453 )

Change subject: strings.h:  Avoid overflows in the string hash functions
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strings.h:  Avoid overflows in the string hash functions

On 2's compliment machines abs(INT_MIN) behavior is undefined and
results in a negative value still being returnd.  This results in
negative hash codes that can result in crashes.

ASTERISK-26528 #close

Change-Id: Idff550145ca2133792a61a2e212b4a3e82c6517b
---
M include/asterisk/strings.h
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Approvals:
  George Joseph: Looks good to me, approved
  Anonymous Coward #1000019: Verified
  Joshua Colp: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve



diff --git a/include/asterisk/strings.h b/include/asterisk/strings.h
index eb5b4e4..1200eb9 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/strings.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/strings.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 /* #define DEBUG_OPAQUE */
 
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <limits.h>
 
 #include "asterisk/utils.h"
 #include "asterisk/threadstorage.h"
@@ -1174,6 +1175,19 @@
 )
 
 /*!
+ * \brief Restrict hash value range
+ *
+ * \details
+ * Hash values used all over asterisk are expected to be non-negative
+ * (signed) int values.  This function restricts an unsigned int hash
+ * value to the positive half of the (signed) int values.
+ */
+static force_inline int attribute_pure ast_str_hash_restrict(unsigned int hash)
+{
+	return (int) (hash & (unsigned int) INT_MAX);
+}
+
+/*!
  * \brief Compute a hash value on a string
  *
  * This famous hash algorithm was written by Dan Bernstein and is
@@ -1183,20 +1197,21 @@
  */
 static force_inline int attribute_pure ast_str_hash(const char *str)
 {
-	int hash = 5381;
+	unsigned int hash = 5381;
 
-	while (*str)
-		hash = hash * 33 ^ *str++;
+	while (*str) {
+		hash = hash * 33 ^ (unsigned char) *str++;
+	}
 
-	return abs(hash);
+	return ast_str_hash_restrict(hash);
 }
 
 /*!
  * \brief Compute a hash value on a string
  *
  * \param[in] str The string to add to the hash
- * \param[in] hash The hash value to add to
- * 
+ * \param[in] seed The hash value to start with
+ *
  * \details
  * This version of the function is for when you need to compute a
  * string hash of more than one string.
@@ -1206,12 +1221,15 @@
  *
  * \sa http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/hash.html
  */
-static force_inline int ast_str_hash_add(const char *str, int hash)
+static force_inline int ast_str_hash_add(const char *str, int seed)
 {
-	while (*str)
-		hash = hash * 33 ^ *str++;
+	unsigned int hash = (unsigned int) seed;
 
-	return abs(hash);
+	while (*str) {
+		hash = hash * 33 ^ (unsigned char) *str++;
+	}
+
+	return ast_str_hash_restrict(hash);
 }
 
 /*!
@@ -1223,13 +1241,13 @@
  */
 static force_inline int attribute_pure ast_str_case_hash(const char *str)
 {
-	int hash = 5381;
+	unsigned int hash = 5381;
 
 	while (*str) {
-		hash = hash * 33 ^ tolower(*str++);
+		hash = hash * 33 ^ (unsigned char) tolower(*str++);
 	}
 
-	return abs(hash);
+	return ast_str_hash_restrict(hash);
 }
 
 /*!

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Gerrit-MessageType: merged
Gerrit-Change-Id: Idff550145ca2133792a61a2e212b4a3e82c6517b
Gerrit-PatchSet: 1
Gerrit-Project: asterisk
Gerrit-Branch: 14
Gerrit-Owner: Torrey Searle <tsearle at gmail.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Anonymous Coward #1000019
Gerrit-Reviewer: George Joseph <gjoseph at digium.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com>



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