With tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec being a 32-bit value on 32-bit systems, (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift) in update_vsyscall() may lose upper bits or, worse, add them since compiler will do this: (u64)(tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift) instead of ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift) So if, for example, tv_nsec is 0x800000 and shift is 8 we will end up with 0xffffffff80000000 instead of 0x80000000. And then we are stuck in the subsequent 'while' loop. We need explicit cast. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c index f9c6e56..9531fbb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk) vdata->monotonic_time_sec = tk->xtime_sec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec; vdata->monotonic_time_snsec = tk->xtime_nsec - + (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec + + ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift); while (vdata->monotonic_time_snsec >= (((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC) << tk->shift)) { -- 1.7.1 -- 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