linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 68/97] mm/page-writeback.c: avoid potential division by zero in wb_min_max

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:29:12 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Qian Cai <cai@....pw>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 68/97] mm/page-writeback.c: avoid potential division by zero in wb_min_max_ratio()

From: Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>

commit 6d9e8c651dd979aa666bee15f086745f3ea9c4b3 upstream.

Patch series "use div64_ul() instead of div_u64() if the divisor is
unsigned long".

We were first inspired by commit b0ab99e7736a ("sched: Fix possible divide
by zero in avg_atom () calculation"), then refer to the recently analyzed
mm code, we found this suspicious place.

 201                 if (min) {
 202                         min *= this_bw;
 203                         do_div(min, tot_bw);
 204                 }

And we also disassembled and confirmed it:

  /usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 201
  0xffffffff811c37da <__wb_calc_thresh+234>:      xor    %r10d,%r10d
  0xffffffff811c37dd <__wb_calc_thresh+237>:      test   %rax,%rax
  0xffffffff811c37e0 <__wb_calc_thresh+240>:      je 0xffffffff811c3800 <__wb_calc_thresh+272>
  /usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 202
  0xffffffff811c37e2 <__wb_calc_thresh+242>:      imul   %r8,%rax
  /usr/src/debug/kernel-4.9.168-016.ali3000/linux-4.9.168-016.ali3000.alios7.x86_64/mm/page-writeback.c: 203
  0xffffffff811c37e6 <__wb_calc_thresh+246>:      mov    %r9d,%r10d    ---> truncates it to 32 bits here
  0xffffffff811c37e9 <__wb_calc_thresh+249>:      xor    %edx,%edx
  0xffffffff811c37eb <__wb_calc_thresh+251>:      div    %r10
  0xffffffff811c37ee <__wb_calc_thresh+254>:      imul   %rbx,%rax
  0xffffffff811c37f2 <__wb_calc_thresh+258>:      shr    $0x2,%rax
  0xffffffff811c37f6 <__wb_calc_thresh+262>:      mul    %rcx
  0xffffffff811c37f9 <__wb_calc_thresh+265>:      shr    $0x2,%rdx
  0xffffffff811c37fd <__wb_calc_thresh+269>:      mov    %rdx,%r10

This series uses div64_ul() instead of div_u64() if the divisor is
unsigned long, to avoid truncation to 32-bit on 64-bit platforms.

This patch (of 3):

The variables 'min' and 'max' are unsigned long and do_div truncates
them to 32 bits, which means it can test non-zero and be truncated to
zero for division.  Fix this issue by using div64_ul() instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200102081442.8273-2-wenyang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 693108a8a667 ("writeback: make bdi->min/max_ratio handling cgroup writeback aware")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/page-writeback.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -200,11 +200,11 @@ static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_
 	if (this_bw < tot_bw) {
 		if (min) {
 			min *= this_bw;
-			do_div(min, tot_bw);
+			min = div64_ul(min, tot_bw);
 		}
 		if (max < 100) {
 			max *= this_bw;
-			do_div(max, tot_bw);
+			max = div64_ul(max, tot_bw);
 		}
 	}