Merge pull request #14718 from holiman/gascalc_fix

core/vm: fix overflow in gas calculation formula

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/core/vm/gas_table.go b/core/vm/gas_table.go
index 24ad6caa5..761ca4450 100644
--- a/core/vm/gas_table.go
+++ b/core/vm/gas_table.go
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 package vm
 
 import (
-	gmath "math"
 	"math/big"
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
@@ -28,15 +27,20 @@ import (
 // memoryGasCosts calculates the quadratic gas for memory expansion. It does so
 // only for the memory region that is expanded, not the total memory.
 func memoryGasCost(mem *Memory, newMemSize uint64) (uint64, error) {
-	// The maximum that will fit in a uint64 is max_word_count - 1
-	// anything above that will result in an overflow.
-	if newMemSize > gmath.MaxUint64-32 {
-		return 0, errGasUintOverflow
-	}
 
 	if newMemSize == 0 {
 		return 0, nil
 	}
+	// The maximum that will fit in a uint64 is max_word_count - 1
+	// anything above that will result in an overflow.
+	// Additionally, a newMemSize which results in a
+	// newMemSizeWords larger than 0x7ffffffff will cause the square operation
+	// to overflow.
+	// The constant 0xffffffffe0 is the highest number that can be used without
+	// overflowing the gas calculation
+	if newMemSize > 0xffffffffe0 {
+		return 0, errGasUintOverflow
+	}
 
 	newMemSizeWords := toWordSize(newMemSize)
 	newMemSize = newMemSizeWords * 32
diff --git a/core/vm/gas_table_test.go b/core/vm/gas_table_test.go
index 1ee909e92..1b91aee56 100644
--- a/core/vm/gas_table_test.go
+++ b/core/vm/gas_table_test.go
@@ -16,24 +16,20 @@
 
 package vm
 
-import (
-	"math"
-	"testing"
-)
+import "testing"
 
 func TestMemoryGasCost(t *testing.T) {
-	size := uint64(math.MaxUint64 - 64)
-	_, err := memoryGasCost(&Memory{}, size)
+	//size := uint64(math.MaxUint64 - 64)
+	size := uint64(0xffffffffe0)
+	v, err := memoryGasCost(&Memory{}, size)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Error("didn't expect error:", err)
 	}
-
-	_, err = memoryGasCost(&Memory{}, size+32)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Error("didn't expect error:", err)
+	if v != 36028899963961341 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected: 36028899963961341, got %d", v)
 	}
 
-	_, err = memoryGasCost(&Memory{}, size+33)
+	_, err = memoryGasCost(&Memory{}, size+1)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Error("expected error")
 	}