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authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2010-03-15 12:46:51 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-03-15 12:47:59 +0100
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parentvfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb() (diff)
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block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments. The supplied arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given sufficiently large input. That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O size reporting in some cases (RAID over RAID). Switch lcm() over to unsigned long similar to gcd() and move the function from blk-settings.c to lib. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/lib/lcm.c b/lib/lcm.c
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+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/gcd.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/* Lowest common multiple */
+unsigned long lcm(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
+{
+ if (a && b)
+ return (a * b) / gcd(a, b);
+ else if (b)
+ return b;
+
+ return a;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lcm);