The patch titled
Subject: mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages-v2
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages-v2.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages-v2.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages-v2
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 17:47:23 -0800
check for -EINVAL in bdi_set_min_bytes() and bdi_set_max_bytes()
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108014723.166637-1-shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: cheung wall <zzqq0103.hey@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87pll35yd0.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages-v2
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -799,6 +799,8 @@ int bdi_set_min_bytes(struct backing_dev
return ret;
min_ratio = bdi_ratio_from_pages(pages);
+ if (min_ratio == -EINVAL)
+ return -EINVAL;
return __bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, min_ratio);
}
@@ -818,6 +820,8 @@ int bdi_set_max_bytes(struct backing_dev
return ret;
max_ratio = bdi_ratio_from_pages(pages);
+ if (max_ratio == -EINVAL)
+ return -EINVAL;
return __bdi_set_max_ratio(bdi, max_ratio);
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages.patch
mm-fix-div-by-zero-in-bdi_ratio_from_pages-v2.patch
