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lib: proportion: lower PROP_MAX_SHIFT to 32 on 64-bit kernel

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PROP_MAX_SHIFT should be set to <=32 on 64-bit box. This fixes two bugs
in the below lines of bdi_dirty_limit():

	bdi_dirty *= numerator;
	do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);

1) divide error: do_div() only uses the lower 32 bit of the denominator,
   which may trimmed to be 0 when PROP_MAX_SHIFT > 32.

2) overflow: (bdi_dirty * numerator) could easily overflow if numerator
   used up to 48 bits, leaving only 16 bits to bdi_dirty

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Ilya Tumaykin <librarian_rus@yahoo.com>
Tested-by: Ilya Tumaykin <librarian_rus@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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Wu Fengguang 2012-01-09 11:53:50 -06:00
parent 15eb77a07c
commit 3310225dfc
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include/linux/proportions.h
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@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ void prop_inc_percpu(struct prop_descriptor *pd, struct prop_local_percpu *pl)
* Limit the time part in order to ensure there are some bits left for the
* cycle counter and fraction multiply.
*/
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
#define PROP_MAX_SHIFT (3*BITS_PER_LONG/4)
#else
#define PROP_MAX_SHIFT (BITS_PER_LONG/2)
#endif
#define PROP_FRAC_SHIFT (BITS_PER_LONG - PROP_MAX_SHIFT - 1)
#define PROP_FRAC_BASE (1UL << PROP_FRAC_SHIFT)