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

From: Tang Yizhou

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 09:06:15 EST


On 14/7/26 2:31 pm, Tao Cui wrote:
> 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);

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

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Best Regards,
Yi