Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again"
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:42:37 +0000 (16:42 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 02:30:15 +0000 (19:30 -0700)
commit8dfcffa37094fef2c8cf8b602316766a86956d07
tree60763d927eeaa899877ee9a6b597094f18ab70dc
parent76ba6acfcce871db13ad51c6dc8f56fec2e92853
Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again"

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