2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Andre Noll commit f1cd14ae52985634d0389e934eba25b5ecf24565 upstream Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:41:24 +1100 Subject: [patch 13/49] md: linear: Fix a division by zero bug for very small arrays. We currently oops with a divide error on starting a linear software raid array consisting of at least two very small (< 500K) devices. The bug is caused by the calculation of the hash table size which tries to compute sector_div(sz, base) with "base" being zero due to the small size of the component devices of the array. Fix this by requiring the hash spacing to be at least one which implies that also "base" is non-zero. This bug has existed since about 2.6.14. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/linear.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/linear.c +++ b/drivers/md/linear.c @@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ static linear_conf_t *linear_conf(mddev_ min_spacing = conf->array_sectors / 2; sector_div(min_spacing, PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct dev_info *)); + if (min_spacing == 0) + min_spacing = 1; /* min_spacing is the minimum spacing that will fit the hash * table in one PAGE. This may be much smaller than needed. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/