* [PATCH v4] blk-throttle: fix divide-by-zero on legacy iops limit of 0
@ 2026-07-22 10:24 Tao Cui
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From: Tao Cui @ 2026-07-22 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Cc: linux-block, josef, yu kuai, cgroups, linux-kernel,
david.laight.linux, haris.iqbal, cui.tao, Tao Cui
From: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Writing a multiple of 2^32 (e.g. 4294967296) to a legacy cgroup v1
throttle iops file (blkio.throttle.{read,write}_iops_device) silently
truncates to 0: tg_set_conf() stores the sscanf-parsed u64 value into
an unsigned int field with no clamping. The cgroup v2 path,
tg_set_limit(), already clamps the same kind of value with
min_t(u64, val, UINT_MAX), but the legacy path never did. Note that
the "!v -> U64_MAX" mapping only catches an explicit zero and does not
catch a value that truncates to zero.
With iops stored as 0, tg_update_has_rules() sets has_rules_iops[] and
the next IO reaches tg_within_iops_limit(), which computes
jiffy_wait = max(jiffy_wait, HZ / iops_limit + 1);
triggering a divide-by-zero oops.
Fix it in tg_set_conf() by clamping the value to UINT_MAX, consistent
with tg_set_limit(). This closes the truncation root cause: with 0 no
longer reachable as a stored limit, the HZ / iops_limit divide is never
hit.
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
---
Changes in v4:
- Drop the defensive "iops_limit == 0" check in tg_dispatch_iops_time():
with the tg_set_conf() clamp in place, 0 can never be stored as a limit,
so the runtime check only guards an unreachable state. (Yu Kuai)
- Drop the Fixes: tag: the unclamped write -- and the iops=0 behavior it
can produce (calculate_io_allowed() returns 0, so no IO is issued) --
long predates the commit that added the HZ / iops_limit divide, so
attributing it there was incorrect. (Yu Kuai)
Changes in v3:
- Drop the (u64) cast on UINT_MAX: the kernel's type-checked min() accepts
two unsigned types of different width (both >= 4 bytes), so
min(v, UINT_MAX) compiles clean. (David Laight)
Changes in v2:
- Use a "void *field" local for the config write so the assignment reads
*(u64 *)field / *(unsigned int *)field instead of the
(type *)((void *)tg + of_cft(of)->private) casts.
- Use min(v, UINT_MAX) instead of min_t(u64, v, UINT_MAX).
---
block/blk-throttle.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
index ffc3b70065d4..97ad7959d006 100644
--- a/block/blk-throttle.c
+++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
@@ -1383,10 +1383,12 @@ static ssize_t tg_set_conf(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
tg = blkg_to_tg(ctx.blkg);
tg_update_carryover(tg);
+ void *field = (void *)tg + of_cft(of)->private;
+
if (is_u64)
- *(u64 *)((void *)tg + of_cft(of)->private) = v;
+ *(u64 *)field = v;
else
- *(unsigned int *)((void *)tg + of_cft(of)->private) = v;
+ *(unsigned int *)field = min(v, UINT_MAX);
tg_conf_updated(tg, false);
ret = 0;
--
2.43.0
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