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Commit 77c4bc4b authored by Chris Down's avatar Chris Down Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm, memcg: fix corruption on 64-bit divisor in memory.high throttling



commit d397a45f upstream.

Commit 0e4b01df had a bunch of fixups to use the right division
method.  However, it seems that after all that it still wasn't right --
div_u64 takes a 32-bit divisor.

The headroom is still large (2^32 pages), so on mundane systems you
won't hit this, but this should definitely be fixed.

Fixes: 0e4b01df ("mm, memcg: throttle allocators when failing reclaim over memory.high")
Reported-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[5.4.x+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/80780887060514967d414b3cd91f9a316a16ab98.1584036142.git.chris@chrisdown.name


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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