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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Bamvor Jian Zhang <bjzhang@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout event callback race
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:16:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20680.48084.559983.299246@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20680.47971.962603.851882@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout event callback race"):
> Jim Fehlig writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout event callback race"):
> > - gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
> > - timeout = (abs_t.tv_usec - now.tv_usec) / 1000;
> > - timeout += (abs_t.tv_sec - now.tv_sec) * 1000;
> 
> Specifically, this code has an integer arithmetic overflow.

If you look at beforepoll_internal in libxl_event.c, near line 859,
you can see how I tackled this same problem there.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-12 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-20  7:16 [PATCH] fix race condition between libvirtd event handling and libxl fd deregister Bamvor Jian Zhang
2012-11-23  9:43 ` Ian Campbell
2012-11-26 23:22   ` Jim Fehlig
2012-11-27 10:03     ` Ian Campbell
2012-11-27 19:08 ` Ian Jackson
2012-11-28 11:25   ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-06 16:11     ` 答复: " Bamvor Jian Zhang
2012-12-07 19:11     ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-07 19:15       ` [PATCH 1/2] libxl: fix stale fd event callback race Ian Jackson
2012-12-07 19:22         ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-07 19:15       ` [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout " Ian Jackson
2012-12-07 19:21       ` [PATCH 1/2] libxl: fix stale fd " Ian Jackson
2012-12-07 19:21       ` [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout " Ian Jackson
2012-12-10 10:19       ` [PATCH] fix race condition between libvirtd event handling and libxl fd deregister Ian Campbell
2012-12-10 10:37         ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-10 16:56           ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-10 16:57             ` [PATCH 1/2] libxl: fix stale fd event callback race Ian Jackson
2012-12-11 22:35               ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-12 17:04                 ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-12 17:20                   ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-10 16:57             ` [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout " Ian Jackson
2012-12-11 22:53               ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-12 17:14                 ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-12 17:16                   ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2012-12-12 17:26                   ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-12 17:37                     ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-12 18:01                       ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-13 10:29                         ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-13 13:12                           ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-13 15:53                           ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-13 15:58                             ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-13 16:53                               ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-13 13:07                         ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-13 15:41                           ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-13 15:51                             ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-13 15:57                               ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-11 10:19             ` [PATCH] fix race condition between libvirtd event handling and libxl fd deregister Bamvor Jian Zhang
2012-12-11 11:20               ` Ian Jackson
2013-01-11 11:41             ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-11 17:51               ` Jim Fehlig
2013-01-15 10:40                 ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-15 17:02                   ` Jim Fehlig
2013-01-21 19:37               ` Jim Fehlig
2013-01-22 10:21                 ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-10 23:56           ` Jim Fehlig
2012-12-11 11:18             ` Ian Jackson
2012-12-06 16:06   ` 答复: " Bamvor Jian Zhang
2013-01-23 16:08 [PATCH 0/2 v4] libxl: fix event races exposed by libvirt Ian Jackson
2013-01-23 16:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout event callback race Ian Jackson
2013-01-23 17:48   ` Jim Fehlig
2013-01-23 18:21 [PATCH 0/2 v4.1] libxl: fix event races exposed by libvirt Ian Jackson
2013-01-23 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] libxl: fix stale timeout event callback race Ian Jackson

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