Patch "hrtimer: Set expiry time before switch_hrtimer_base()" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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

    hrtimer: Set expiry time before switch_hrtimer_base()

to the 3.4-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:
     hrtimer-set-expiry-time-before-switch_hrtimer_base.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

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


>From 84ea7fe37908254c3bd90910921f6e1045c1747a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:42:29 +0530
Subject: hrtimer: Set expiry time before switch_hrtimer_base()

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 84ea7fe37908254c3bd90910921f6e1045c1747a upstream.

switch_hrtimer_base() calls hrtimer_check_target() which ensures that
we do not migrate a timer to a remote cpu if the timer expires before
the current programmed expiry time on that remote cpu.

But __hrtimer_start_range_ns() calls switch_hrtimer_base() before the
new expiry time is set. So the sanity check in hrtimer_check_target()
is operating on stale or even uninitialized data.

Update expiry time before calling switch_hrtimer_base().

[ tglx: Rewrote changelog once again ]

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linaro-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linaro-networking@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: arvind.chauhan@xxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/81999e148745fc51bbcd0615823fbab9b2e87e23.1399882253.git.viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/hrtimer.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -985,11 +985,8 @@ int __hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrti
 	/* Remove an active timer from the queue: */
 	ret = remove_hrtimer(timer, base);
 
-	/* Switch the timer base, if necessary: */
-	new_base = switch_hrtimer_base(timer, base, mode & HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED);
-
 	if (mode & HRTIMER_MODE_REL) {
-		tim = ktime_add_safe(tim, new_base->get_time());
+		tim = ktime_add_safe(tim, base->get_time());
 		/*
 		 * CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES is a temporary way for architectures
 		 * to signal that they simply return xtime in
@@ -1004,6 +1001,9 @@ int __hrtimer_start_range_ns(struct hrti
 
 	hrtimer_set_expires_range_ns(timer, tim, delta_ns);
 
+	/* Switch the timer base, if necessary: */
+	new_base = switch_hrtimer_base(timer, base, mode & HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED);
+
 	timer_stats_hrtimer_set_start_info(timer);
 
 	leftmost = enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/hrtimer-set-expiry-time-before-switch_hrtimer_base.patch
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