Re: [PATCH] time: Cast tv_nsec to u64 for proper shifting in update_vsyscall()

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On 05/09/2014 11:43 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 05/09/2014 08:11 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
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
This is needed in stable only for v3.14, right?

I suspect anything that has commit 650ea024 needs to be fixed. I see this code, for example, in 3.12 (it used to be in vsyscall_64.c).

-boris
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