This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hrtimer: Fix ktime_add_ns() overflow on 32bit architectures
to the 3.8-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:
hrtimer-fix-ktime_add_ns-overflow-on-32bit-architectures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 51fd36f3fad8447c487137ae26b9d0b3ce77bb25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Engraf <david.engraf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:29:55 +0100
Subject: hrtimer: Fix ktime_add_ns() overflow on 32bit architectures
From: David Engraf <david.engraf@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 51fd36f3fad8447c487137ae26b9d0b3ce77bb25 upstream.
One can trigger an overflow when using ktime_add_ns() on a 32bit
architecture not supporting CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR.
When passing a very high value for u64 nsec, e.g. 7881299347898368000
the do_div() function converts this value to seconds (7881299347) which
is still to high to pass to the ktime_set() function as long. The result
in is a negative value.
The problem on my system occurs in the tick-sched.c,
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when time_delta is set to
timekeeping_max_deferment(). The check for time_delta < KTIME_MAX is
valid, thus ktime_add_ns() is called with a too large value resulting in
a negative expire value. This leads to an endless loop in the ticker code:
time_delta: 7881299347898368000
expires = ktime_add_ns(last_update, time_delta)
expires: negative value
This fix caps the value to KTIME_MAX.
This error doesn't occurs on 64bit or architectures supporting
CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR (e.g. ARM, x86-32).
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@xxxxxxxxx>
[jstultz: Minor tweaks to commit message & header]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/hrtimer.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -298,6 +298,10 @@ ktime_t ktime_sub_ns(const ktime_t kt, u
} else {
unsigned long rem = do_div(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ /* Make sure nsec fits into long */
+ if (unlikely(nsec > KTIME_SEC_MAX))
+ return (ktime_t){ .tv64 = KTIME_MAX };
+
tmp = ktime_set((long)nsec, rem);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david.engraf@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/hrtimer-fix-ktime_add_ns-overflow-on-32bit-architectures.patch
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