linux-stable.git/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c, branch v4.12.2

alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals

2017-06-04T13:21:18+00:00

The alarmtimer code has another source of potentially rearming itself too
fast. Interval timers with a very samll interval have a similar CPU hog
effect as the previously fixed overflow issue.

The reason is that alarmtimers do not implement the normal protection
against this kind of problem which the other posix timer use:

  timer expires -> queue signal -> deliver signal -> rearm timer

This scheme brings the rearming under scheduler control and prevents
permanently firing timers which hog the CPU.

Bringing this scheme to the alarm timer code is a major overhaul because it
lacks all the necessary mechanisms completely.

So for a quick fix limit the interval to one jiffie. This is not
problematic in practice as alarmtimers are usually backed by an RTC for
suspend which have 1 second resolution. It could be therefor argued that
the resolution of this clock should be set to 1 second in general, but
that's outside the scope of this fix.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Kostya Serebryany 
Cc: syzkaller 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.896767100@linutronix.de

alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers

2017-06-04T13:21:18+00:00

Andrey reported a alartimer related RCU stall while fuzzing the kernel with
syzkaller.

The reason for this is an overflow in ktime_add() which brings the
resulting time into negative space and causes immediate expiry of the
timer. The following rearm with a small interval does not bring the timer
back into positive space due to the same issue.

This results in a permanent firing alarmtimer which hogs the CPU.

Use ktime_add_safe() instead which detects the overflow and clamps the
result to KTIME_SEC_MAX.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Kostya Serebryany 
Cc: syzkaller 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.802921648@linutronix.de

time: Change k_clock nsleep() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:56+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.

The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

Note that the restart_block parameter for nanosleep has also been left
unchanged and will be part of syscall series noted above.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-8-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change k_clock timer_set() and timer_get() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:56+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.

struct itimerspec internally uses struct timespec.  Use struct itimerspec64
which uses struct timespec64.

The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-7-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change k_clock clock_getres() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:55+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel. The syscall
interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

The clock_getres() interface has also been changed to use timespec64 even
though this particular interface is not affected by the y2038 problem. This
helps verification for internal kernel code for y2038 readiness by getting
rid of time_t/ timeval/ timespec completely.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-5-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Change k_clock clock_get() to use timespec64

2017-04-14T19:49:55+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.  Replace uses of
struct timespec with struct timespec64 in the kernel.

The syscall interfaces themselves will be changed in a separate series.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490555058-4603-4-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from into

2017-03-02T07:42:32+00:00

Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage

2016-12-25T16:21:22+00:00

ktime_set(S,N) was required for the timespec storage type and is still
useful for situations where a Seconds and Nanoseconds part of a time value
needs to be converted. For anything where the Seconds argument is 0, this
is pointless and can be replaced with a simple assignment.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra

ktime: Get rid of the union

2016-12-25T16:21:22+00:00

ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.

Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.

The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra