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writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:49:13 +0000 (16:49 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 17 May 2015 16:55:07 +0000 (09:55 -0700)
commitae2aafcf1a7132e268c8568627a6721fec6f3d98
tree32492edfbc3e2d9e93ead7ff5ede3ba600ebefa3
parent335d3678d60de9af4f75d4d11d0689b535b271e8
writeback: use |1 instead of +1 to protect against div by zero

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@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/page-writeback.c