This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation to the 3.15-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: sched-fix-possible-divide-by-zero-in-avg_atom-calculation.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b0ab99e7736af88b8ac1b7ae50ea287fffa2badc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:00:09 +0200 Subject: sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b0ab99e7736af88b8ac1b7ae50ea287fffa2badc upstream. proc_sched_show_task() does: if (nr_switches) do_div(avg_atom, nr_switches); nr_switches is unsigned long and do_div truncates it to 32 bits, which means it can test non-zero on e.g. x86-64 and be truncated to zero for division. Fix the problem by using div64_ul() instead. As a side effect calculations of avg_atom for big nr_switches are now correct. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402750809-31991-1-git-send-email-mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/debug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/debug.c +++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_st avg_atom = p->se.sum_exec_runtime; if (nr_switches) - do_div(avg_atom, nr_switches); + avg_atom = div64_ul(avg_atom, nr_switches); else avg_atom = -1LL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/sched-fix-possible-divide-by-zero-in-avg_atom-calculation.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