Patch "timer: Prevent overflow in apply_slack" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    timer: Prevent overflow in apply_slack

to the 3.10-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:
     timer-prevent-overflow-in-apply_slack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 98a01e779f3c66b0b11cd7e64d531c0e41c95762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:23:11 +0200
Subject: timer: Prevent overflow in apply_slack

From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>

commit 98a01e779f3c66b0b11cd7e64d531c0e41c95762 upstream.

On architectures with sizeof(int) < sizeof (long), the
computation of mask inside apply_slack() can be undefined if the
computed bit is > 32.

E.g. with: expires = 0xffffe6f5 and slack = 25, we get:

expires_limit = 0x20000000e
bit = 33
mask = (1 << 33) - 1  /* undefined */

On x86, mask becomes 1 and and the slack is not applied properly.
On s390, mask is -1, expires is set to 0 and the timer fires immediately.

Use 1UL << bit to solve that issue.

Suggested-by: Deborah Townsend <dstownse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140418152310.GA13654@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/timer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ unsigned long apply_slack(struct timer_l
 
 	bit = find_last_bit(&mask, BITS_PER_LONG);
 
-	mask = (1 << bit) - 1;
+	mask = (1UL << bit) - 1;
 
 	expires_limit = expires_limit & ~(mask);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jbohac@xxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/timer-prevent-overflow-in-apply_slack.patch
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