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From: Tang Yizhou <tangyeechou@gmail.com>
To: Tao Cui <cui.tao@linux.dev>, axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: tj@kernel.org, josef@toxicpanda.com, boris@bur.io,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: avoid 32-bit overflow in root io.stat byte accounting
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:54:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed8b92b3-18d8-43d4-b204-8ae82d0f5e38@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260714063118.1153083-1-cui.tao@linux.dev>

On 14/7/26 2:31 pm, Tao Cui wrote:
> From: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
> 
> blkcg_fill_root_iostats() converts per-CPU sector counts to bytes with
> 
>     tmp.bytes[BLKG_IOSTAT_READ] += cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_READ] << 9;
> 
> but disk_stats.sectors is `unsigned long`, and the shift is carried out in
> that type before the result is promoted to the u64 accumulator.  On 32-bit
> kernels (unsigned long is 32 bits) this wraps, so once a per-CPU counter
> reaches 2**23 sectors (~4 GiB) the computed byte count is wrong, corrupting
> the root cgroup's io.stat.
> 
> Every other sector->byte conversion in the tree casts to a wide type first
> ((loff_t)sectors << SECTOR_SHIFT in bdev.c, (u64)max_sectors << SECTOR_SHIFT
> in blk-settings.c); do the same here.
> 
> Fixes: ef45fe470e1e5 ("blk-cgroup: show global disk stats in root cgroup io.stat")
> Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
> ---
>  block/blk-cgroup.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> index d2a1f5903f24..a778aa9d2bb9 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> @@ -1112,11 +1112,11 @@ static void blkcg_fill_root_iostats(void)
>  				cpu_dkstats->ios[STAT_DISCARD];
>  			// convert sectors to bytes
>  			tmp.bytes[BLKG_IOSTAT_READ] +=
> -				cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_READ] << 9;
> +				(u64)cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_READ] << SECTOR_SHIFT;
>  			tmp.bytes[BLKG_IOSTAT_WRITE] +=
> -				cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_WRITE] << 9;
> +				(u64)cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_WRITE] << SECTOR_SHIFT;
>  			tmp.bytes[BLKG_IOSTAT_DISCARD] +=
> -				cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_DISCARD] << 9;
> +				(u64)cpu_dkstats->sectors[STAT_DISCARD] << SECTOR_SHIFT;
>  		}
>  
>  		flags = u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave(&blkg->iostat.sync);

Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@shopee.com>

-- 
Best Regards,
Yi


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-16 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-14  6:31 Tao Cui
2026-07-16 12:54 ` Tang Yizhou [this message]
2026-07-16 17:17 ` Bart Van Assche

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