This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled time: Make sure jiffies_to_msecs() preserves non-zero time periods to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: time-make-sure-jiffies_to_msecs-preserves-non-zero-time-periods.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From abcbcb80cd09cd40f2089d912764e315459b71f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:33:57 +0200 Subject: time: Make sure jiffies_to_msecs() preserves non-zero time periods MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit abcbcb80cd09cd40f2089d912764e315459b71f7 upstream. For the common cases where 1000 is a multiple of HZ, or HZ is a multiple of 1000, jiffies_to_msecs() never returns zero when passed a non-zero time period. However, if HZ > 1000 and not an integer multiple of 1000 (e.g. 1024 or 1200, as used on alpha and DECstation), jiffies_to_msecs() may return zero for small non-zero time periods. This may break code that relies on receiving back a non-zero value. jiffies_to_usecs() does not need such a fix: one jiffy can only be less than one µs if HZ > 1000000, and such large values of HZ are already rejected at build time, twice: - include/linux/jiffies.h does #error if HZ >= 12288, - kernel/time/time.c has BUILD_BUG_ON(HZ > USEC_PER_SEC). Broken since forever. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622143357.7495-1-geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/time.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/time/time.c +++ b/kernel/time/time.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ */ #include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/timex.h> #include <linux/capability.h> #include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h> @@ -348,9 +349,10 @@ unsigned int jiffies_to_msecs(const unsi return (j + (HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC) - 1)/(HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC); #else # if BITS_PER_LONG == 32 - return (HZ_TO_MSEC_MUL32 * j) >> HZ_TO_MSEC_SHR32; + return (HZ_TO_MSEC_MUL32 * j + (1ULL << HZ_TO_MSEC_SHR32) - 1) >> + HZ_TO_MSEC_SHR32; # else - return (j * HZ_TO_MSEC_NUM) / HZ_TO_MSEC_DEN; + return DIV_ROUND_UP(j * HZ_TO_MSEC_NUM, HZ_TO_MSEC_DEN); # endif #endif } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/auxdisplay-fix-broken-menu.patch queue-4.14/time-make-sure-jiffies_to_msecs-preserves-non-zero-time-periods.patch queue-4.14/m68k-mm-adjust-vm-area-to-be-unmapped-by-gap-size-for-__iounmap.patch queue-4.14/m68k-mac-fix-swim-memory-resource-end-address.patch