writeback: fix negative bdi max pause

Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386.  After some time it hangs and the last
message line is

	BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]

It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large.  More than 1000000000
pages in this case:

	period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000);      <---------

UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here:

	ick: pause : -984
	ick: pages_dirtied : 0
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

	 pause:
	+       if (pause < 0)  {
	+               extern int printf(char *, ...);
	+               printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
	+               printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
	+               printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
	+               BUG_ON(1);
	+       }
	        trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,

Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also
bounded by max_pause.  It's suspected and demonstrated that the
max_pause calculation goes wrong:

	ick: pause : -717
	ick: min_pause : -177
	ick: max_pause : -717
	ick: pages_dirtied : 14
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in
bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and the
min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0.  Fix all of
them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index f5236f804aa6cdf9800f445c31950a52cdd6b88f..63807583d8e89f1c96f8b05bcf5fe422ed200c26 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1210,11 +1210,11 @@ static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
        return 1;
 }
 
-static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
-                         unsigned long bdi_dirty)
+static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+                                  unsigned long bdi_dirty)
 {
-       long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
-       long t;
+       unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
+       unsigned long t;
 
        /*
         * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
@@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
        t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8));
        t++;
 
-       return min_t(long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
+       return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
 }
 
 static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,