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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Subject: [patch 1/2] posix-cpu-timers: Unbreak timer rearming
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:33:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190111133500.840117406@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20190111133315.657348322@linutronix.de

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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
---
 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,



  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 13:33 [patch 0/2] posix-cpu-timers: Unbreak interval timers Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-11 13:33 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-01-11 16:10   ` [patch 1/2] posix-cpu-timers: Unbreak timer rearming H.J. Lu
2019-01-15 15:36   ` [tip:timers/urgent] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-11 13:33 ` [patch 2/2] posix-cpu-timers: Remove private interval storage Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-15 15:39   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner

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