[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 56de2b348417629b8614c3a39436f643d3d547cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 12:50:01 -0700
Subject: mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom

commit d5c9fde3dae750889168807038243ff36431d276 upstream.

It is possible for "limit - setpoint + 1" to equal zero, after getting
truncated to a 32 bit variable, and resulting in a divide by zero error.

Using the fully 64 bit divide functions avoids this problem.  It also
will cause pos_ratio_polynom() to return the correct value when
(setpoint - limit) exceeds 2^32.

Also uninline pos_ratio_polynom, at Andrew's request.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino at redhat.com>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma at jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7106cb1..8f6daa6 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -593,14 +593,14 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
  * (5) the closer to setpoint, the smaller |df/dx| (and the reverse)
  *     => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
  */
-static inline long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint,
+static long long pos_ratio_polynom(unsigned long setpoint,
 					  unsigned long dirty,
 					  unsigned long limit)
 {
 	long long pos_ratio;
 	long x;

-	x = div_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
+	x = div64_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
 		    limit - setpoint + 1);
 	pos_ratio = x;
 	pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 	x_intercept = bdi_setpoint + span;

 	if (bdi_dirty < x_intercept - span / 4) {
-		pos_ratio = div_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
+		pos_ratio = div64_u64(pos_ratio * (x_intercept - bdi_dirty),
 				    x_intercept - bdi_setpoint + 1);
 	} else
 		pos_ratio /= 4;
--
1.9.1