linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.4 170/172] writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:37:04 +0800
From:	lizf@...nel.org
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4 170/172] writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

3.4.108-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

commit 464d1387acb94dc43ba772b35242345e3d2ead1b upstream.

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@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: drop other two changes as there's only one
 such statment in 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 25aaa31..ecd1c4c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ 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
-- 
1.9.1

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