From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ring-buffer: check for divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 12:20:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508162132.193226406@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090508162033.397923239@goodmis.org>
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From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Although we check if "missed" is not zero, we divide by hit + missed,
and the addition can possible overflow and become a divide by zero.
This patch checks for this case, and will report it when it happens
then modify "hit" to make the calculation be non zero.
[ Impact: prevent possible divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark ]
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
index 7d3aef9..8d68e14 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer_benchmark.c
@@ -294,6 +294,12 @@ static void ring_buffer_producer(void)
pr_info("Total iterations per millisec: %ld\n", hit + missed);
+ /* it is possible that hit + missed will overflow and be zero */
+ if (!(hit + missed)) {
+ pr_info("hit + missed overflowed and totalled zero!\n");
+ hit--; /* make it non zero */
+ }
+
/* Caculate the average time in nanosecs */
avg = NSEC_PER_MSEC / (hit + missed);
pr_info("%ld ns per entry\n", avg);
--
1.6.2.4
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-08 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 16:20 [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] ring-buffer: fixes suggested by Andrew Steven Rostedt
2009-05-08 16:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: replace constants with time macros in ring-buffer-benchmark Steven Rostedt
2009-05-08 16:20 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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