Patch "dm bufio: fix integer overflow when limiting maximum cache size" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

dm bufio: fix integer overflow when limiting maximum cache size

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
dm-bufio-fix-integer-overflow-when-limiting-maximum-cache-size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:38:09 -0800
Subject: dm bufio: fix integer overflow when limiting maximum cache size

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

commit 74d4108d9e681dbbe4a2940ed8fdff1f6868184c upstream.

The default max_cache_size_bytes for dm-bufio is meant to be the lesser of 25% of the size of the vmalloc area and 2% of the size of lowmem. However, on 32-bit systems the intermediate result in the expression

(VMALLOC_END - VMALLOC_START) * DM_BUFIO_VMALLOC_PERCENT / 100

overflows, causing the wrong result to be computed. For example, on a 32-bit system where the vmalloc area is 520093696 bytes, the result is 1174405 rather than the expected 130023424, which makes the maximum cache size much too small (far less than 2% of lowmem). This causes severe performance problems for dm-verity users on affected systems.

Fix this by using mult_frac() to correctly multiply by a percentage. Do this for all places in dm-bufio that multiply by a percentage. Also replace (VMALLOC_END - VMALLOC_START) with VMALLOC_TOTAL, which contrary to the comment is now defined in include/linux/vmalloc.h.

Depends-on: 9993bc635 ("sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset")

---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c |   15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

@@ -937,7 +937,8 @@ static void __get_memory_limit(struct dm
 		buffers = c->minimum_buffers;
 
 	*limit_buffers = buffers;
-	*threshold_buffers = buffers * DM_BUFIO_WRITEBACK_PERCENT / 100;
+	*threshold_buffers = mult_frac(buffers,
+				       DM_BUFIO_WRITEBACK_PERCENT, 100);
 }
 
 /*

@@ -1856,19 +1857,15 @@ static int __init dm_bufio_init(void)
 	memset(&dm_bufio_caches, 0, sizeof dm_bufio_caches);
 	memset(&dm_bufio_cache_names, 0, sizeof dm_bufio_cache_names);
 
-	mem = (__u64)((totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages) *
-		      DM_BUFIO_MEMORY_PERCENT / 100) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	mem = (__u64)mult_frac(totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages,
+			       DM_BUFIO_MEMORY_PERCENT, 100) << PAGE_SHIFT;
 
 	if (mem > ULONG_MAX)
 		mem = ULONG_MAX;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-	/*
-	 * Get the size of vmalloc space the same way as VMALLOC_TOTAL
-	 * in fs/proc/internal.h
-	 */
-	if (mem > (VMALLOC_END - VMALLOC_START) * DM_BUFIO_VMALLOC_PERCENT / 100)
-		mem = (VMALLOC_END - VMALLOC_START) * DM_BUFIO_VMALLOC_PERCENT / 100;
+	if (mem > mult_frac(VMALLOC_TOTAL, DM_BUFIO_VMALLOC_PERCENT, 100))
+		mem = mult_frac(VMALLOC_TOTAL, DM_BUFIO_VMALLOC_PERCENT, 100);
 #endif
 
 	dm_bufio_default_cache_size = mem;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/lib-mpi-call-cond_resched-from-mpi_powm-loop.patch queue-4.9/dm-bufio-fix-integer-overflow-when-limiting-maximum-cache-size.patch