The quilt patch titled Subject: Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again" has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was revert-mm-writeback-fix-possible-divide-by-zero-in-wb_dirty_limits-again.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Subject: Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again" Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:42:37 +0200
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 ---
mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~revert-mm-writeback-fix-possible-divide-by-zero-in-wb_dirty_limits-again +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1660,7 +1660,7 @@ static inline void wb_dirty_limits(struc */ dtc->wb_thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(dtc, dtc->thresh); 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 _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@suse.cz are
readahead-make-sure-sync-readahead-reads-needed-page.patch filemap-fix-page_cache_next_miss-when-no-hole-found.patch readahead-properly-shorten-readahead-when-falling-back-to-do_page_cache_ra.patch readahead-drop-pointless-index-from-force_page_cache_ra.patch readahead-drop-index-argument-of-page_cache_async_readahead.patch readahead-drop-dead-code-in-page_cache_ra_order.patch readahead-drop-dead-code-in-ondemand_readahead.patch readahead-disentangle-async-and-sync-readahead.patch readahead-fold-try_context_readahead-into-its-single-caller.patch readahead-simplify-gotos-in-page_cache_sync_ra.patch