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Commit 62bef58a authored by Vitaly Kuznetsov's avatar Vitaly Kuznetsov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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lib/string_helpers.c: fix infinite loop in string_get_size()



Some string_get_size() calls (e.g.:
 string_get_size(1, 512, STRING_UNITS_10, ..., ...)
 string_get_size(15, 64, STRING_UNITS_10, ..., ...)
) result in an infinite loop. The problem is that if size is equal to
divisor[units]/blk_size and is smaller than divisor[units] we'll end
up with size == 0 when we start doing sf_cap calculations:

For string_get_size(1, 512, STRING_UNITS_10, ..., ...) case:
   ...
   remainder = do_div(size, divisor[units]); -> size is 0, remainder is 1
   remainder *= blk_size; -> remainder is 512
   ...
   size *= blk_size; -> size is still 0
   size += remainder / divisor[units]; -> size is still 0

The caller causing the issue is sd_read_capacity(), the problem was
noticed on Hyper-V, such weird size was reported by host when scanning
collides with device removal.  This is probably a separate issue worth
fixing, this patch is intended to prevent the library routine from
infinite looping.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 14b97ded
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