This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled padata: Honor the caller's alignment in case of chunk_size 0 to the 6.1-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: padata-honor-the-caller-s-alignment-in-case-of-chunk.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit affc850b4082d4b3939b1d3aad1ecb603a778575 Author: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@xxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 22 02:32:52 2024 +0530 padata: Honor the caller's alignment in case of chunk_size 0 [ Upstream commit 24cc57d8faaa4060fd58adf810b858fcfb71a02f ] In the case where we are forcing the ps.chunk_size to be at least 1, we are ignoring the caller's alignment. Move the forcing of ps.chunk_size to be at least 1 before rounding it up to caller's alignment, so that caller's alignment is honored. While at it, use max() to force the ps.chunk_size to be at least 1 to improve readability. Fixes: 6d45e1c948a8 ("padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()") Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c index 11270ffca54e0..87b4db3772866 100644 --- a/kernel/padata.c +++ b/kernel/padata.c @@ -503,9 +503,12 @@ void __init padata_do_multithreaded(struct padata_mt_job *job) * thread function. Load balance large jobs between threads by * increasing the number of chunks, guarantee at least the minimum * chunk size from the caller, and honor the caller's alignment. + * Ensure chunk_size is at least 1 to prevent divide-by-0 + * panic in padata_mt_helper(). */ ps.chunk_size = job->size / (ps.nworks * load_balance_factor); ps.chunk_size = max(ps.chunk_size, job->min_chunk); + ps.chunk_size = max(ps.chunk_size, 1ul); ps.chunk_size = roundup(ps.chunk_size, job->align); /*