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Negative (setpoint-dirty) in bdi_position_ratio()

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In bdi_position_ratio(), get difference (setpoint-dirty) right even when
negative. Both setpoint and dirty are unsigned long, the difference was
zero-padded thus wrongly sign-extended to s64. This issue affects all
32-bit architectures, does not affect 64-bit architectures where long
and s64 are equivalent.

In this function, dirty is between freerun and limit, the pseudo-float x
is between [-1,1], expected to be negative about half the time. With
zero-padding, instead of a small negative x we obtained a large positive
one so bdi_position_ratio() returned garbage.

Casting the difference to s64 also prevents overflow with left-shift;
though normally these numbers are small and I never observed a 32-bit
overflow there.

(This patch does not solve the PAE OOM issue.)

Paul Szabo   [email protected]   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Paul Szabo <[email protected]>
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182
Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
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[email protected] 2013-01-20 11:02:10 +11:00 • committed by Fengguang Wu
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@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
* => fast response on large errors; small oscillation near setpoint
*/
setpoint = (freerun + limit) / 2;
x = div_s64((setpoint - dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
x = div_s64(((s64)setpoint - (s64)dirty) << RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT,
limit - setpoint + 1);
pos_ratio = x;
pos_ratio = pos_ratio * x >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT;