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

[Luis Henriques]

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-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 559bd0df13bb52e9136da5b24d7b53bff9f29c5a 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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 Adjust context - pos_ratio_polynom() is not a separate function]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7298e741ae35..ad494ae5703f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 	 *     => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
 	 */
 	setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
-	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;
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ 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