[PATCH 3.4 170/172] writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero

lizf
2015-06-16T08:51:37Z

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

3.4.108-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit 464d1387acb94dc43ba772b35242345e3d2ead1b upstream.

mm/page-writeback.c has several places where 1 is added to the divisor
to prevent division by zero exceptions; however, if the original
divisor is equivalent to -1, adding 1 leads to division by zero.

There are three places where +1 is used for this purpose - one in
pos_ratio_polynom() and two in bdi_position_ratio(). The second one
in bdi_position_ratio() actually triggered div-by-zero oops on a
machine running a 3.10 kernel. The divisor is

x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1 == span + 1

span is confirmed to be (u32)-1. It isn't clear how it ended up that
but it could be from write bandwidth calculation underflow fixed by
c72efb658f7c ("writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth
calculation").

At any rate, +1 isn't a proper protection against div-by-zero. This
patch converts all +1 protections to |1. Note that
bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit() was already using |1 before this patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: drop other two changes as there's only one
such statment in 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 25aaa31..ecd1c4c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
* scale global setpoint to bdi's:
* bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh
*/
- x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1);
+ x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh | 1);
bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16;
/*
* Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by
--
1.9.1