[PATCH 3.11 023/137] sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Aug 18 2014 - 05:34:14 EST


3.11.10.15 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit b0ab99e7736af88b8ac1b7ae50ea287fffa2badc upstream.

proc_sched_show_task() does:

if (nr_switches)
do_div(avg_atom, nr_switches);

nr_switches is unsigned long and do_div truncates it to 32 bits, which
means it can test non-zero on e.g. x86-64 and be truncated to zero for
division.

Fix the problem by using div64_ul() instead.

As a side effect calculations of avg_atom for big nr_switches are now correct.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402750809-31991-1-git-send-email-mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 631daf2612c1..8304ee67c56b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ void proc_sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m)

avg_atom = p->se.sum_exec_runtime;
if (nr_switches)
- do_div(avg_atom, nr_switches);
+ avg_atom = div64_ul(avg_atom, nr_switches);
else
avg_atom = -1LL;

--
1.9.1

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