This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled posix-timers: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper to the 4.4-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: posix-timers-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 572c39172684c3711e4a03c9a7380067e2b0661c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:54:47 +0000 Subject: posix-timers: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 572c39172684c3711e4a03c9a7380067e2b0661c upstream. As Helge reported for timerfd we have the same issue in posix timers. We return remaining time larger than the programmed relative time to user space in case of CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES=y. Use the proper function to adjust the extra time added in hrtimer_start_range_ns(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-m68k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160114164159.450510905@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr, (timr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_NONE)) timr->it_overrun += (unsigned int) hrtimer_forward(timer, now, iv); - remaining = ktime_sub(hrtimer_get_expires(timer), now); + remaining = __hrtimer_expires_remaining_adjusted(timer, now); /* Return 0 only, when the timer is expired and not pending */ if (remaining.tv64 <= 0) { /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/itimers-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch queue-4.4/futex-drop-refcount-if-requeue_pi-acquired-the-rtmutex.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-pat-avoid-truncation-when-converting-cpa-numpages-to-address.patch queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch queue-4.4/timerfd-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch queue-4.4/posix-timers-handle-relative-timers-with-config_time_low_res-proper.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-handle-large-pages-properly.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-types-used-in-pgprot-cacheability-flags-translations.patch queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-make-the-__copy_user_nocache-assembly-code-more-readable.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html