Hi

On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, gregkh@suse.de wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> 
>     Subject: md: linear: Fix a division by zero bug for very small arrays.
> Subject: md: linear: Fix a division by zero bug for very small arrays.
> 
> to the 2.6.27-stable tree.  Its filename is
> 
>     md-linear-fix-a-division-by-zero-bug-for-very-small-arrays.patch
> 
> A git repo of this tree can be found at 
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> 
> From jejb@kernel.org  Tue Nov 11 09:47:32 2008
> From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:07:46 GMT
> Subject: md: linear: Fix a division by zero bug for very small arrays.
> To: stable@kernel.org
> Message-ID: <200811070007.mA707k6d006270@hera.kernel.org>
> 
> From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
> 
> commit f1cd14ae52985634d0389e934eba25b5ecf24565 upstream
> 
> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:41:24 +1100
> Subject: md: linear: Fix a division by zero bug for very small arrays.
> 
> We currently oops with a divide error on starting a linear software
> raid array consisting of at least two very small (< 500K) devices.
> 
> The bug is caused by the calculation of the hash table size which
> tries to compute sector_div(sz, base) with "base" being zero due to
> the small size of the component devices of the array.
> 
> Fix this by requiring the hash spacing to be at least one which
> implies that also "base" is non-zero.
> 
> This bug has existed since about 2.6.14.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/md/linear.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/drivers/md/linear.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/linear.c
> @@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ static linear_conf_t *linear_conf(mddev_
>  
>  	min_spacing = conf->array_sectors / 2;
>  	sector_div(min_spacing, PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct dev_info *));
> +	if (min_sectors == 0)
> +		min_sectors = 1;
>  
>  	/* min_spacing is the minimum spacing that will fit the hash
>  	 * table in one PAGE.  This may be much smaller than needed.

drivers/md/linear.c: In function 'linear_conf':
drivers/md/linear.c:160: error: 'min_sectors' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/md/linear.c:160: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/md/linear.c:160: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[5]: *** [drivers/md/linear.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [drivers/md] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This one obviously depends on:

commit 23242fbb470ff4c8c4d41f178832cf1929273d7d
Author: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 11:55:12 2008 +1100

    md: linear.c: Make two local variables sector-based.

which in turn depends on previous changes.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann