- time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled

     time: fix msecs_to_jiffies() bug

has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename is

     time-fix-msecs_to_jiffies-bug.patch

This patch was dropped because the irq changes broke ir

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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>
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
git-netdev-all.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
sched-likely-profiling.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
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
gtod-mark-tsc-unusable-for-highres-timers.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

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