On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:48:26 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is still prone to u64 -> s32 issue, isn't it?
> What was the original problem anyway? Was it really setpoint > limit or
> rather the overflow?
This patch should avoid math overflows with both the initial
subtraction, and with use of the truncated divisor by div_s64
and div_u64.
I added redundant casts in the div_s64 and div_u64 calls to
make it clear what those functions do internally, which should
make it easy to understand why we do the same cast in the if
statements right above.
I believe this version of the patch addresses everybody's concerns.
---8<---
Subject: mm,writeback: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom
It is possible for "limit - setpoint + 1" to equal zero, leading to a
divide by zero error. Blindly adding 1 to "limit - setpoint" is not
working, so we need to actually test the divisor before calling div64.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index ef41349..6405687 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -598,10 +598,15 @@ static inline long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint,
unsigned long limit)
{
long long pos_ratio;
+ long divisor;
long x;
+ divisor = limit - setpoint;
+ if (!(s32)divisor)
+ divisor = 1; /* Avoid div-by-zero */
+
x = div_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
- limit - setpoint + 1);
+ (s32)divisor);
pos_ratio = x;
pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
@@ -842,8 +847,12 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;
if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
+ unsigned long divisor = x_intercept - bdi_setpoint;
+ if (!(u32)divisor)
+ divisor = 1; /* Avoid div-by-zero */
+
pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
- x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
+ (u32)divisor);
} else
pos_ratio /= 4;
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