The patch titled Subject: padata: honor the caller's alignment in case of chunk_size 0 has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is padata-honor-the-callers-alignment-in-case-of-chunk_size-0.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/padata-honor-the-callers-alignment-in-case-of-chunk_size-0.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@xxxxxx> Subject: padata: honor the caller's alignment in case of chunk_size 0 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:32:52 +0530 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. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240822-max-v1-1-cb4bc5b1c101@xxxxxx Fixes: 6d45e1c948a8 ("padata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()") Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Gurudasani <kamlesh@xxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/padata.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/padata.c~padata-honor-the-callers-alignment-in-case-of-chunk_size-0 +++ a/kernel/padata.c @@ -509,21 +509,17 @@ void __init padata_do_multithreaded(stru /* * Chunk size is the amount of work a helper does per call to the - * thread function. Load balance large jobs between threads by + * 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); - /* - * chunk_size can be 0 if the caller sets min_chunk to 0. So force it - * to at least 1 to prevent divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper().` - */ - if (!ps.chunk_size) - ps.chunk_size = 1U; - list_for_each_entry(pw, &works, pw_list) if (job->numa_aware) { int old_node = atomic_read(&last_used_nid); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamlesh@xxxxxx are padata-honor-the-callers-alignment-in-case-of-chunk_size-0.patch