From: Maxim Patlasov <[email protected]> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
=============== commit f6789593d5cea42a4ecb1cbeab6a23ade5ebbba7 upstream. 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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> --- 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 d013dba21429..9f45f87a5859 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1324,9 +1324,9 @@ 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 -- 2.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
