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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2012-09-24 17:17:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-09-25 08:59:21 -0700
commitb5bd6a0e5fa8c0376d9746c566fe3daaa51ec825 (patch)
treeac746aa7a4f21b9ac4161b66fce9965ffeda9cb1
parent0e75898fe2499ece0ac3f1475982a828b3283b0d (diff)
lib/flex_proportions.c: fix corruption of denominator in flexible proportions
When racing with CPU hotplug, percpu_counter_sum() can return negative values for the number of observed events. This confuses fprop_new_period(), which uses unsigned type and as a result number of events is set to big *positive* number. From that moment on, things go pear shaped and can result e.g. in division by zero as denominator is later truncated to 32-bits. This bug causes a divide-by-zero oops in bdi_dirty_limit() in Borislav's 3.6.0-rc6 based kernel. Fix the issue by using a signed type in fprop_new_period(). That makes us bail out from the function without doing anything (mistakenly) thinking there are no events to age. That makes aging somewhat inaccurate but getting accurate data would be rather hard. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--lib/flex_proportions.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/flex_proportions.c b/lib/flex_proportions.c
index c785554f9523..ebf3bac460b0 100644
--- a/lib/flex_proportions.c
+++ b/lib/flex_proportions.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void fprop_global_destroy(struct fprop_global *p)
*/
bool fprop_new_period(struct fprop_global *p, int periods)
{
- u64 events;
+ s64 events;
unsigned long flags;
local_irq_save(flags);