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    blk: avoid divide-by-zero with zero discard granularity · 59771079
    Linus Torvalds 提交于
    Commit 8dd2cb7e ("block: discard granularity might not be power of
    2") changed a couple of 'binary and' operations into modulus operations.
    Which turned the harmless case of a zero discard_granularity into a
    possible divide-by-zero.
    
    The code also had a much more subtle bug: it was doing the modulus of a
    value in bytes using 'sector_t'.  That was always conceptually wrong,
    but didn't actually matter back when the code assumed a power-of-two
    granularity: we only looked at the low bits anyway.
    
    But with potentially arbitrary sector numbers, using a 'sector_t' to
    express bytes is very very wrong: depending on configuration it limits
    the starting offset of the device to just 32 bits, and any overflow
    would result in a wrong value if the modulus wasn't a power-of-two.
    
    So re-write the code to not only protect against the divide-by-zero, but
    to do the starting sector arithmetic in sectors, and using the proper
    types.
    
    [ For any mathematicians out there: it also looks monumentally stupid to
      do the 'modulo granularity' operation *twice*, never mind having a "+
      granularity" in the second modulus op.
    
      But that's the easiest way to avoid negative values or overflow, and
      it is how the original code was done. ]
    Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Reported-by: NDoug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
    Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
    Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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