[PATCH] Timespec normalize off by one errors

From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Timespec normalize off by one errors
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:16:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43750A1A.4010102@mvista.com> (raw)

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Found three places were we use ">" instead of ">=".
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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
HRT (High-res-timers):  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

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Source: MontaVista Software, Inc. 
Type: Defect Fix 

It would appear that the timespec normalize code has an off by one error.
Found in three places.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>

 include/linux/time.h  |    2 +-
 kernel/posix-timers.c |   10 +++-------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc/include/linux/time.h
===================================================================

--- linux-2.6.15-rc.orig/include/linux/time.h
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc/include/linux/time.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(st
 static inline void
 set_normalized_timespec (struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, long nsec)
 {
-	while (nsec > NSEC_PER_SEC) {
+	while (nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
 		nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
 		++sec;
 	}
Index: linux-2.6.15-rc/kernel/posix-timers.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc.orig/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static void tstojiffie(struct timespec *
 	long sec = tp->tv_sec;
 	long nsec = tp->tv_nsec + res - 1;
 
-	if (nsec > NSEC_PER_SEC) {
+	if (nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
 		sec++;
 		nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
 	}
@@ -1209,13 +1209,9 @@ static int do_posix_clock_monotonic_get(
 
 	do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime_parts(tp, &wall_to_mono);
 
-	tp->tv_sec += wall_to_mono.tv_sec;
-	tp->tv_nsec += wall_to_mono.tv_nsec;
+	set_normalized_timespec(tp, tp->tv_sec += wall_to_mono.tv_sec,
+				tv_nsec += wall_to_mono.tv_nsec);
 
-	if ((tp->tv_nsec - NSEC_PER_SEC) > 0) {
-		tp->tv_nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
-		tp->tv_sec++;
-	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
