From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 464d1387acb94dc43ba772b35242345e3d2ead1b ] mm/page-writeback.c has several places where 1 is added to the divisor to prevent division by zero exceptions; however, if the original divisor is equivalent to -1, adding 1 leads to division by zero. There are three places where +1 is used for this purpose - one in pos_ratio_polynom() and two in bdi_position_ratio(). The second one in bdi_position_ratio() actually triggered div-by-zero oops on a machine running a 3.10 kernel. The divisor is x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1 == span + 1 span is confirmed to be (u32)-1. It isn't clear how it ended up that but it could be from write bandwidth calculation underflow fixed by c72efb658f7c ("writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation"). At any rate, +1 isn't a proper protection against div-by-zero. This patch converts all +1 protections to |1. Note that bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit() was already using |1 before this patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index c8abd20..b9aaa16 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint, long x; x = div64_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, - limit - setpoint + 1); + (limit - setpoint) | 1); pos_ratio = x; pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, * scale global setpoint to bdi's: * bdi_setpoint = setpoint * bdi_thresh / thresh */ - x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh + 1); + x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh | 1); bdi_setpoint = setpoint * (u64)x >> 16; /* * Use span=(8*write_bw) in single bdi case as indicated by @@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) { pos_ratio = div64_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty), - x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1); + (x_intercept - bdi_setpoint) | 1); } else pos_ratio /= 4; -- 2.1.0 -- 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