This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom to the 3.14-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: mm-page-writeback.c-fix-divide-by-zero-in-pos_ratio_polynom.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d5c9fde3dae750889168807038243ff36431d276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 12:50:01 -0700 Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d5c9fde3dae750889168807038243ff36431d276 upstream. It is possible for "limit - setpoint + 1" to equal zero, after getting truncated to a 32 bit variable, and resulting in a divide by zero error. Using the fully 64 bit divide functions avoids this problem. It also will cause pos_ratio_polynom() to return the correct value when (setpoint - limit) exceeds 2^32. Also uninline pos_ratio_polynom, at Andrew's request. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -593,14 +593,14 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct bac * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse) * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint */ -static inline long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint, +static long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint, unsigned long dirty, unsigned long limit) { long long pos_ratio; long x; - x = div_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, + x = div64_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, limit - setpoint + 1); pos_ratio = x; pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio( x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span; if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) { - pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty), + pos_ratio = div64_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty), x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1); } else pos_ratio /= 4; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from riel@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/revert-mm-vmscan-do-not-swap-anon-pages-just-because-free-file-is-low.patch queue-3.14/mm-thp-close-race-between-mremap-and-split_huge_page.patch queue-3.14/mm-compaction-make-isolate_freepages-start-at-pageblock-boundary.patch queue-3.14/mm-page-writeback.c-fix-divide-by-zero-in-pos_ratio_polynom.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html