This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
writeback: fix call of incorrect macro
to the 6.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
writeback-fix-call-of-incorrect-macro.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fe783a182cd048e23d30553849cf95aa882d861d
Author: Maxim Korotkov <korotkov.maxim.s@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jan 19 13:44:43 2023 +0300
writeback: fix call of incorrect macro
[ Upstream commit 3e46c89c74f2c38e5337d2cf44b0b551adff1cb4 ]
the variable 'history' is of type u16, it may be an error
that the hweight32 macro was used for it
I guess macro hweight16 should be used
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 2a81490811d0 ("writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection")
Signed-off-by: Maxim Korotkov <korotkov.maxim.s@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230119104443.3002-1-korotkov.maxim.s@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 713e2d97935ff..909150a57aebb 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ void wbc_detach_inode(struct writeback_control *wbc)
* is okay. The main goal is avoiding keeping an inode on
* the wrong wb for an extended period of time.
*/
- if (hweight32(history) > WB_FRN_HIST_THR_SLOTS)
+ if (hweight16(history) > WB_FRN_HIST_THR_SLOTS)
inode_switch_wbs(inode, max_id);
}
