[PATCH] blk-cgroup: avoid 32-bit overflow in root io.stat byte accounting

From: Tao Cui

Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 02:34:33 EST


From: Tao Cui <cuitao@xxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);
--
2.43.0