From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753401AbaFGBcl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:32:41 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:36094 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752659AbaFGBXj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:23:39 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au" , "Fengguang Wu" , "Jan Kara" , "Paul Szabo" Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:26:29 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 59/92] Negative (setpoint-dirty) in bdi_position_ratio() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.60-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au" commit ed84825b785ceb932af7dd5aa08614801721320b upstream. In bdi_position_ratio(), get difference (setpoint-dirty) right even when negative. Both setpoint and dirty are unsigned long, the difference was zero-padded thus wrongly sign-extended to s64. This issue affects all 32-bit architectures, does not affect 64-bit architectures where long and s64 are equivalent. In this function, dirty is between freerun and limit, the pseudo-float x is between [-1,1], expected to be negative about half the time. With zero-padding, instead of a small negative x we obtained a large positive one so bdi_position_ratio() returned garbage. Casting the difference to s64 also prevents overflow with left-shift; though normally these numbers are small and I never observed a 32-bit overflow there. (This patch does not solve the PAE OOM issue.) Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Paul Szabo Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182 Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio( * => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint */ setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2; - x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, + x = div_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT, limit - setpoint + 1); pos_ratio = x; pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;