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    Subject[05/15] lib: proportion: lower PROP_MAX_SHIFT to 32 on 64-bit kernel
    3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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    From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

    commit 3310225dfc71a35a2cc9340c15c0e08b14b3c754 upstream.

    PROP_MAX_SHIFT should be set to <=32 on 64-bit box. This fixes two bugs
    in the below lines of bdi_dirty_limit():

    bdi_dirty *= numerator;
    do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);

    1) divide error: do_div() only uses the lower 32 bit of the denominator,
    which may trimmed to be 0 when PROP_MAX_SHIFT > 32.

    2) overflow: (bdi_dirty * numerator) could easily overflow if numerator
    used up to 48 bits, leaving only 16 bits to bdi_dirty

    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Reported-by: Ilya Tumaykin <librarian_rus@yahoo.com>
    Tested-by: Ilya Tumaykin <librarian_rus@yahoo.com>
    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

    ---
    include/linux/proportions.h | 4 ++++
    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

    --- a/include/linux/proportions.h
    +++ b/include/linux/proportions.h
    @@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ void prop_inc_percpu(struct prop_descrip
    * Limit the time part in order to ensure there are some bits left for the
    * cycle counter and fraction multiply.
    */
    +#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
    #define PROP_MAX_SHIFT (3*BITS_PER_LONG/4)
    +#else
    +#define PROP_MAX_SHIFT (BITS_PER_LONG/2)
    +#endif

    #define PROP_FRAC_SHIFT (BITS_PER_LONG - PROP_MAX_SHIFT - 1)
    #define PROP_FRAC_BASE (1UL << PROP_FRAC_SHIFT)



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