4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz
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 --- mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struc */ 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