4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 93ad0fc088c5b4631f796c995bdd27a082ef33a6 upstream.
The recent commit which prevented a division by 0 issue in the alarm timer
code broke posix CPU timers as an unwanted side effect.
The reason is that the common rearm code checks for timer->it_interval
being 0 now. What went unnoticed is that the posix cpu timer setup does not
initialize timer->it_interval as it stores the interval in CPU timer
specific storage. The reason for the separate storage is historical as the
posix CPU timers always had a 64bit nanoseconds representation internally
while timer->it_interval is type ktime_t which used to be a modified
timespec representation on 32bit machines.
Instead of reverting the offending commit and fixing the alarmtimer issue
in the alarmtimer code, store the interval in timer->it_interval at CPU
timer setup time so the common code check works. This also repairs the
existing inconistency of the posix CPU timer code which kept a single shot
timer armed despite of the interval being 0.
The separate storage can be removed in mainline, but that needs to be a
separate commit as the current one has to be backported to stable kernels.
Fixes: 0e334db6bb4b ("posix-timers: Fix division by zero bug")
Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111133500.840117406@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static int posix_cpu_timer_set(struct k_
* set up the signal and overrun bookkeeping.
*/
timer->it.cpu.incr = timespec64_to_ns(&new->it_interval);
+ timer->it_interval = ns_to_ktime(timer->it.cpu.incr);
/*
* This acts as a modification timestamp for the timer,
