[PATCH] mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in bdi_dirty_limits

[Maxim Patlasov]

Under memory pressure, it is possible for dirty_thresh, calculated by
global_dirty_limits() in balance_dirty_pages(), to equal zero. Then, if
strictlimit is true, bdi_dirty_limits() tries to resolve the proportion:

  bdi_bg_thresh : bdi_thresh = background_thresh : dirty_thresh

by dividing by zero.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 518e2c3..e0c9430 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1306,9 +1306,9 @@ static inline void bdi_dirty_limits(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 	*bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
 
 	if (bdi_bg_thresh)
-		*bdi_bg_thresh = div_u64((u64)*bdi_thresh *
-					 background_thresh,
-					 dirty_thresh);
+		*bdi_bg_thresh = dirty_thresh ? div_u64((u64)*bdi_thresh *
+							background_thresh,
+							dirty_thresh) : 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need

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