> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Wilmas [mailto:php_li...@realplain.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:43 PM
> To: Jakub Zelenka <bu...@php.net>
> Cc: Anatol Belski <anatol....@belski.net>; php-...@lists.php.net; PHP 
> internals
> list <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Fix possible overflow in
> openssl_pbkdf2: ext/openssl/openssl.c
> 
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jakub Zelenka"
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Matt Wilmas <php_li...@realplain.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Anatol, Jakub,
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> The checks with zend_long vars like key_length and iterations are
> >> impossible when ZEND_LONG_MAX == INT_MAX (most if not all 32-bit, I
> >> guess).  So those checks should already be removed by the compiler.
> >>
> >>
> > I was thinking that compiler should be able to optimize it out but not
> > sure about all compilers that we support. It's quite cheap so can do
> > that anyway but not sure if it's worthy it.
> 
> If any compiler can't do such a simple optimization, then it's going to be 
> missing
> many other possible optimizations as well.  Read: Who cares about them. :-)
> 
> >> But for the size_t ones, would need to check SIZEOF_SIZE_T > 4 around
> >> the macros or such.  Or you could just change in the definition:
> >>
> >> if (_max < _var)
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >> if (sizeof(_max) < sizeof(_var) && _max < _var)
> >>
> >> Which should work fine and allow the compiler to remove it easily,
> >> without any extra clutter.
> >>
> >
> > we are talking about size_t (unsigned) and int (signed) so not sure
> > how could compiler optimize it out on 32bit? Did I miss anything?
> 
> sizeof(INT_literal_or_var) should be equal (not <) to sizeof(size_t_var) on 
> 32-bit
> (if ints are 32-bit).  So the condition becomes (4 < 4 && _max <
> _var) and is optimized out.  The signedness doesn't matter, and we don't care 
> in
> this case, but the compiler can't otherwise know that...
> 
> Of course on 64-bit, only (_max < _var) remains -- (4 < 8) is removed.
> 
Ok, got the idea now. But sizeof(size_t) is always > sizeof(zend_long). And for 
signed, still it is simpler and safer to just use an #ifdef around.

Regards

Anatol


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