From: Hungyu Lin <dennylin0707@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: willy@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz, shr@devkernel.io,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Hungyu Lin <dennylin0707@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/page-writeback: avoid 32-bit overflow in dirty threshold shares
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:06:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021060654.27855-1-dennylin0707@gmail.com> (raw)
The ratios used by __wb_calc_thresh() are scaled to parts per million,
but the threshold and ratio operands are unsigned long. On 32-bit
kernels, their multiplication can wrap before the result is assigned
to u64.
For example, with a threshold of 25600 pages and the default maximum
ratio of 1000000, wb_max_thresh becomes 4125 pages instead of 25600.
The shared threshold and minimum share calculations can overflow in
the same way, producing incorrect per-writeback dirty limits.
Use a u64 threshold for the three ratio multiplications and div_u64()
to retain the existing division order and rounding.
Fixes: ae82291e9ca4 ("mm: use part per 1000000 for bdi ratios")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hungyu Lin <dennylin0707@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use a u64 threshold variable instead of repeated casts, as suggested by
Andrew Morton.
mm/page-writeback.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index eeab25d6ce36..1d6aab8781a5 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
{
struct wb_domain *dom = dtc_dom(dtc);
struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb;
+ u64 threshold = thresh;
u64 wb_thresh;
u64 wb_max_thresh;
unsigned long numerator, denominator;
@@ -894,13 +895,14 @@ static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
fprop_fraction_percpu(&dom->completions, dtc->wb_completions,
&numerator, &denominator);
- wb_thresh = (thresh * (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE - bdi_min_ratio)) / (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
+ wb_thresh = div_u64(threshold * (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE - bdi_min_ratio),
+ 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
wb_thresh *= numerator;
wb_thresh = div64_ul(wb_thresh, denominator);
wb_min_max_ratio(wb, &wb_min_ratio, &wb_max_ratio);
- wb_thresh += (thresh * wb_min_ratio) / (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
+ wb_thresh += div_u64(threshold * wb_min_ratio, 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
/*
* It's very possible that wb_thresh is close to 0 not because the
@@ -916,7 +918,7 @@ static unsigned long __wb_calc_thresh(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
wb_thresh = max(wb_thresh, (thresh - dtc->dirty) / 8);
}
- wb_max_thresh = thresh * wb_max_ratio / (100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
+ wb_max_thresh = div_u64(threshold * wb_max_ratio, 100 * BDI_RATIO_SCALE);
if (wb_thresh > wb_max_thresh)
wb_thresh = wb_max_thresh;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 6:06 Hungyu Lin [this message]
2026-10-21 15:07 ` Jan Kara
2026-10-21 15:28 ` Gregory Price
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20261021060654.27855-1-dennylin0707@gmail.com \
--to=dennylin0707@gmail.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=jack@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=shr@devkernel.io \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=willy@infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®