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From: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, sashal@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: fix arithmetic for bdi min_ratio
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:35:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251211023507.82177-2-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251211023507.82177-1-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>

commit e0646b7590084a5bf3b056d3ad871d9379d2c25a upstream.

Since now bdi->min_ratio is part per million, fix the wrong arithmetic.
Otherwise it will fail with -EINVAL when setting a reasonable min_ratio,
as it tries to set min_ratio to (min_ratio * BDI_RATIO_SCALE) in
percentage unit, which exceeds 100% anyway.

    # cat /sys/class/bdi/253\:0/min_ratio
    0
    # cat /sys/class/bdi/253\:0/max_ratio
    100
    # echo 1 > /sys/class/bdi/253\:0/min_ratio
    -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231219142508.86265-2-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 8021fb3232f2 ("mm: split off __bdi_set_min_ratio() function")
Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 9ceb841af819..3929bb0a7501 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -714,7 +714,6 @@ static int __bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ra
 
 	if (min_ratio > 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	min_ratio *= BDI_RATIO_SCALE;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
 	if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) {
-- 
2.19.1.6.gb485710b


  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-11  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-11  2:35 [6.6-stable 0/2] mm: two fixes for bdi min_ratio and max_ratio knob Jingbo Xu
2025-12-11  2:35 ` Jingbo Xu [this message]
2025-12-11  2:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: fix arithmetic for max_prop_frac when setting max_ratio Jingbo Xu
2026-01-08 11:07 ` [6.6-stable 0/2] mm: two fixes for bdi min_ratio and max_ratio knob Greg KH
2026-01-09  1:38   ` Jingbo Xu

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