lib/div64.c: off by one in shift
authorStanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:28:18 +0000 (16:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 02:32:00 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
fls counts bits starting from 1 to 32 (returns 0 for zero argument).  If
we add 1 we shift right one bit more and loose precision from divisor,
what cause function incorect results with some numbers.

Corrected code was tested in user-space, see bugzilla:
   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202391

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 658716d19f8f ("div64_u64(): improve precision on 32bit platforms")
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Siarhei Volkau <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Siarhei Volkau <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
lib/div64.c

index 01c8602bb6ffb9250e5a24b6c6866e47c440da51..ee146bb4c558055d335a1b5409f5d00f7467bed2 100644 (file)
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ u64 div64_u64_rem(u64 dividend, u64 divisor, u64 *remainder)
                quot = div_u64_rem(dividend, divisor, &rem32);
                *remainder = rem32;
        } else {
-               int n = 1 + fls(high);
+               int n = fls(high);
                quot = div_u64(dividend >> n, divisor >> n);
 
                if (quot != 0)
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ u64 div64_u64(u64 dividend, u64 divisor)
        if (high == 0) {
                quot = div_u64(dividend, divisor);
        } else {
-               int n = 1 + fls(high);
+               int n = fls(high);
                quot = div_u64(dividend >> n, divisor >> n);
 
                if (quot != 0)