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-rw-r--r--util/cutils.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
index fd591cadf0..77acadc70a 100644
--- a/util/cutils.c
+++ b/util/cutils.c
@@ -239,10 +239,12 @@ static int do_strtosz(const char *nptr, const char **end,
goto out;
}
/*
- * Values >= 0xfffffffffffffc00 overflow uint64_t after their trip
- * through double (53 bits of precision).
+ * Values near UINT64_MAX overflow to 2**64 when converting to double
+ * precision. Compare against the maximum representable double precision
+ * value below 2**64, computed as "the next value after 2**64 (0x1p64) in
+ * the direction of 0".
*/
- if ((val * mul >= 0xfffffffffffffc00) || val < 0) {
+ if ((val * mul > nextafter(0x1p64, 0)) || val < 0) {
retval = -ERANGE;
goto out;
}