linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 144/259] sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg

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Message-Id: <1407530482-4483-145-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Fri,  8 Aug 2014 13:39:27 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 144/259] sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation

3.13.11.6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>

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@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402750809-31991-1-git-send-email-mguzik@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 5c34d18..0c60913 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m)
 
 		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;
 
-- 
1.9.1

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