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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2024-06-21 17:42:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-07-11 13:49:16 +0300 |
| commit | f6620df12cb6bdcad671d269debbb23573502f9d (patch) | |
| tree | 497d465923edb9899d2f12574f6c438fd25b92b6 /mm | |
| parent | dd0aa13fda824520da3fd980c3ed5f0628671aac (diff) | |
| download | linux-f6620df12cb6bdcad671d269debbb23573502f9d.tar.xz | |
Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again"
commit 30139c702048f1097342a31302cbd3d478f50c63 upstream.
Patch series "mm: Avoid possible overflows in dirty throttling".
Dirty throttling logic assumes dirty limits in page units fit into
32-bits. This patch series makes sure this is true (see patch 2/2 for
more details).
This patch (of 2):
This reverts commit 9319b647902cbd5cc884ac08a8a6d54ce111fc78.
The commit is broken in several ways. Firstly, the removed (u64) cast
from the multiplication will introduce a multiplication overflow on 32-bit
archs if wb_thresh * bg_thresh >= 1<<32 (which is actually common - the
default settings with 4GB of RAM will trigger this). Secondly, the
div64_u64() is unnecessarily expensive on 32-bit archs. We have
div64_ul() in case we want to be safe & cheap. Thirdly, if dirty
thresholds are larger than 1<<32 pages, then dirty balancing is going to
blow up in many other spectacular ways anyway so trying to fix one
possible overflow is just moot.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621144017.30993-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621144246.11148-1-jack@suse.cz
Fixes: 9319b647902c ("mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-By: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index f23267083964..e632ec9b6421 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1660,7 +1660,7 @@ static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) */ dtc->wb_thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(dtc); dtc->wb_bg_thresh = dtc->thresh ? - div64_u64(dtc->wb_thresh * dtc->bg_thresh, dtc->thresh) : 0; + div_u64((u64)dtc->wb_thresh * dtc->bg_thresh, dtc->thresh) : 0; /* * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need |