The patch titled time: fix msecs_to_jiffies() bug has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: time: fix msecs_to_jiffies() bug From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Fix multiple conversion bugs in msecs_to_jiffies(). The main problem is that this condition: if (m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET)) overflows if HZ is smaller than 1000! This change is user-visible: for HZ=250 SUS-compliant poll()-timeout value of -20 is mistakenly converted to 'immediate timeout'. (The new dyntick code also triggered this, as it frequently creates 'lagging timer wheel' scenarios.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/time.c~time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug kernel/time.c --- a/kernel/time.c~time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug +++ a/kernel/time.c @@ -500,15 +500,56 @@ unsigned int jiffies_to_usecs(const unsi } EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_to_usecs); +/* + * When we convert to jiffies then we interpret incoming values + * the following way: + * + * - negative values mean 'infinite timeout' (MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET) + * + * - 'too large' values [that would result in larger than + * MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET values] mean 'infinite timeout' too. + * + * - all other values are converted to jiffies by either multiplying + * the input value by a factor or dividing it with a factor + * + * We must also be careful about 32-bit overflows. + */ unsigned long msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m) { - if (m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET)) + /* + * Negative value, means infinite timeout: + */ + if ((int)m < 0) return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET; + #if HZ <= MSEC_PER_SEC && !(MSEC_PER_SEC % HZ) + /* + * HZ is equal to or smaller than 1000, and 1000 is a nice + * round multiple of HZ, divide with the factor between them, + * but round upwards: + */ return (m + (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) - 1) / (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ); #elif HZ > MSEC_PER_SEC && !(HZ % MSEC_PER_SEC) + /* + * HZ is larger than 1000, and HZ is a nice round multiple of + * 1000 - simply multiply with the factor between them. + * + * But first make sure the multiplication result cannot + * overflow: + */ + if (m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET)) + return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET; + return m * (HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC); #else + /* + * Generic case - multiply, round and divide. But first + * check that if we are doing a net multiplication, that + * we wouldnt overflow: + */ + if (HZ > MSEC_PER_SEC && m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET)) + return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET; + return (m * HZ + MSEC_PER_SEC - 1) / MSEC_PER_SEC; #endif } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are origin.patch forcedeth-hardirq-lockdep-warning.patch bonding-lockdep-annotation.patch spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace.patch spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace-fix.patch spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace-fix-2.patch spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace-fix-3.patch remove-the-old-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch new-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch nfsd-lockdep-annotation.patch sched-force-sbin-init-off-isolated-cpus.patch sched-remove-unnecessary-sched-group-allocations.patch sched-remove-unnecessary-sched-group-allocations-fix.patch lower-migration-thread-stop-machine-prio.patch sched-introduce-child-field-in-sched_domain.patch sched-cleanup-sched_group-cpu_power-setup.patch sched-fixing-wrong-comment-for-find_idlest_cpu.patch scheduler-numa-aware-placement-of-sched_group_allnodes.patch sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch sched-cleanup-remove-task_t-convert-to-struct-task_struct-prefetch.patch genirq-convert-the-x86_64-architecture-to-irq-chips.patch genirq-convert-the-i386-architecture-to-irq-chips.patch genirq-irq-convert-the-move_irq-flag-from-a-32bit-word-to-a-single-bit.patch genirq-irq-add-moved_masked_irq.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-reenable-migrating-irqs-to-other-cpus.patch genirq-msi-simplify-msi-enable-and-disable.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-boolean-tests-return-either-0-or-1.patch genirq-msi-implement-helper-functions-read_msi_msg-and-write_msi_msg.patch genirq-msi-refactor-the-msi_ops.patch genirq-msi-simplify-the-msi-irq-limit-policy.patch genirq-irq-add-a-dynamic-irq-creation-api.patch genirq-ia64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-i386-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-code-irq-based-and-not-vector-based.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-i386-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-i386-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-irq-remove-msi-hacks.patch genirq-irq-generalize-the-check-for-hardirq_bits.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-the-external-irq-handlers-report-their-vector-not-the-irq-number.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu-warning-fix.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-gsi_irq_sharing.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-irq-compression.patch msi-simplify-msi-sanity-checks-by-adding-with-generic-irq-code.patch msi-only-use-a-single-irq_chip-for-msi-interrupts.patch msi-refactor-and-move-the-msi-irq_chip-into-the-arch-code.patch msi-move-the-ia64-code-into-arch-ia64.patch htirq-tidy-up-the-htirq-code.patch genirq-clean-up-irq-flow-type-naming.patch gtod-exponential-update_wall_time.patch gtod-persistent-clock-support-core.patch gtod-persistent-clock-support-i386.patch time-uninline-jiffiesh.patch time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug.patch time-fix-timeout-overflow.patch cleanup-uninline-irq_enter-and-move-it-into-a.patch dynticks-extend-next_timer_interrupt-to-use-a.patch hrtimers-namespace-and-enum-cleanup.patch hrtimers-clean-up-locking.patch hrtimers-state-tracking.patch hrtimers-clean-up-callback-tracking.patch hrtimers-move-and-add-documentation.patch clockevents-core.patch clockevents-drivers-for-i386.patch high-res-timers-core.patch high-res-timers-core-fix.patch dynticks-core.patch dyntick-add-nohz-stats-to-proc-stat.patch dynticks-i386-arch-code.patch high-res-timers-dynticks-enable-i386-support.patch debugging-feature-timer-stats.patch detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch debug-shared-irqs.patch make-frame_pointer-default=y.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch vdso-improve-print_fatal_signals-support-by-adding-memory-maps.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html