linux-stable.git/kernel/time, branch linux-3.12.y

tick/broadcast: Prevent NULL pointer dereference

2017-01-26T16:40:21+00:00

commit c1a9eeb938b5433947e5ea22f89baff3182e7075 upstream.

When a disfunctional timer, e.g. dummy timer, is installed, the tick core
tries to setup the broadcast timer.

If no broadcast device is installed, the kernel crashes with a NULL pointer
dereference in tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() because the function has no
sanity check.

Reported-by: Mason 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Daniel Lezcano 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra ,
Cc: Sebastian Frias 
Cc: Thibaud Cornic 
Cc: Robin Murphy 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1147ef90-7877-e4d2-bb2b-5c4fa8d3144b@free.fr
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

clockevents: export clockevents_unbind_device instead of clockevents_unbind

2016-10-06T06:22:02+00:00

commit 32a158325acf12842764b1681f53903673f2f22e upstream.

It looks like clockevents_unbind is being exported by mistake as:
- it is static;
- it is not listed in include/linux/clockchips.h;
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_unbind) follows clockevents_unbind_device()
  implementation.

I think clockevents_unbind_device should be exported instead. This is going to
be used to teardown Hyper-V clockevent devices on module unload.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

timekeeping: Cap array access in timekeeping_debug

2016-09-29T09:14:13+00:00

commit a4f8f6667f099036c88f231dcad4cf233652c824 upstream.

It was reported that hibernation could fail on the 2nd attempt, where the
system hangs at hibernate() -> syscore_resume() -> i8237A_resume() ->
claim_dma_lock(), because the lock has already been taken.

However there is actually no other process would like to grab this lock on
that problematic platform.

Further investigation showed that the problem is triggered by setting
/sys/power/pm_trace to 1 before the 1st hibernation.

Since once pm_trace is enabled, the rtc becomes unmeaningful after suspend,
and meanwhile some BIOSes would like to adjust the 'invalid' RTC (e.g, smaller
than 1970) to the release date of that motherboard during POST stage, thus
after resumed, it may seem that the system had a significant long sleep time
which is a completely meaningless value.

Then in timekeeping_resume -> tk_debug_account_sleep_time, if the bit31 of the
sleep time happened to be set to 1, fls() returns 32 and we add 1 to
sleep_time_bin[32], which causes an out of bounds array access and therefor
memory being overwritten.

As depicted by System.map:
0xffffffff81c9d080 b sleep_time_bin
0xffffffff81c9d100 B dma_spin_lock
the dma_spin_lock.val is set to 1, which caused this problem.

This patch adds a sanity check in tk_debug_account_sleep_time()
to ensure we don't index past the sleep_time_bin array.

[jstultz: Problem diagnosed and original patch by Chen Yu, I've solved the
 issue slightly differently, but borrowed his excelent explanation of the
 issue here.]

Fixes: 5c83545f24ab "power: Add option to log time spent in suspend"
Reported-by: Janek Kozicki 
Reported-by: Chen Yu 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Xunlei Pang 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Zhang Rui 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471993702-29148-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path

2016-03-03T11:46:02+00:00

commit 1b9f23727abb92c5e58f139e7d180befcaa06fe0 upstream.

The posix_clock_poll function is supposed to return a bit mask of
POLLxxx values.  However, in case the hardware has disappeared (due to
hot plugging for example) this code returns -ENODEV in a futile
attempt to throw an error at the file descriptor level.  The kernel's
file_operations interface does not accept such error codes from the
poll method.  Instead, this function aught to return POLLERR.

The value -ENODEV does, in fact, contain the POLLERR bit (and almost
all the other POLLxxx bits as well), but only by chance.  This patch
fixes code to return a proper bit mask.

Credit goes to Markus Elfring for pointing out the suspicious
signed/unsigned mismatch.

Reported-by: Markus Elfring 
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Julia Lawall 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq validation on 32-bit systems

2015-04-09T12:13:23+00:00

commit 29183a70b0b828500816bd794b3fe192fce89f73 upstream.

Additional validation of adjtimex freq values to avoid
potential multiplication overflows were added in commit
5e5aeb4367b (time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values)

Unfortunately the patch used LONG_MAX/MIN instead of
LLONG_MAX/MIN, which was fine on 64-bit systems, but being
much smaller on 32-bit systems caused false positives
resulting in most direct frequency adjustments to fail w/
EINVAL.

ntpd only does direct frequency adjustments at startup, so
the issue was not as easily observed there, but other time
sync applications like ptpd and chrony were more effected by
the bug.

See bugs:

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92481
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188074

This patch changes the checks to use LLONG_MAX for
clarity, and additionally the checks are disabled
on 32-bit systems since LLONG_MAX/PPM_SCALE is always
larger then the 32-bit long freq value, so multiplication
overflows aren't possible there.

Reported-by: Josh Boyer 
Reported-by: George Joseph 
Tested-by: George Joseph 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423553436-29747-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ Prettified the changelog and the comments a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Christian Riesch 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values

2015-01-29T14:45:01+00:00

commit 5e5aeb4367b450a28f447f6d5ab57d8f2ab16a5f upstream.

Verify that the frequency value from userspace is valid and makes sense.

Unverified values can cause overflows later on.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
[jstultz: Fix up bug for negative values and drop redunent cap check]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse

2015-01-26T13:39:29+00:00

commit a5fd9733a30d18d7ac23f17080e7e07bb3205b69 upstream.

commit 4dbd27711cd9 "tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module
use" was merged via the thermal tree without an explicit ack from the
relevant maintainers.

The exports are abused by the intel powerclamp driver which implements
a fake idle state from a sched FIFO task. This causes all kinds of
wreckage in the NOHZ core code which rightfully assumes that
tick_nohz_idle_enter/exit() are only called from the idle task itself.

Recent changes in the NOHZ core lead to a failure of the powerclamp
driver and now people try to hack completely broken and backwards
workarounds into the NOHZ core code. This is completely unacceptable
and just papers over the real problem. There are way more subtle
issues lurking around the corner.

The real solution is to fix the powerclamp driver by rewriting it with
a sane concept, but that's beyond the scope of this.

So the only solution for now is to remove the calls into the core NOHZ
code from the powerclamp trainwreck along with the exports.

Fixes: d6d71ee4a14a "PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Preeti U Murthy 
Cc: Viresh Kumar 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Pan Jacob jun 
Cc: LKP 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Zhang Rui 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback

2014-10-13T13:41:34+00:00

commit 474e941bed9262f5fa2394f9a4a67e24499e5926 upstream.

Locks the k_itimer's it_lock member when handling the alarm timer's
expiry callback.

The regular posix timers defined in posix-timers.c have this lock held
during timout processing because their callbacks are routed through
posix_timer_fn().  The alarm timers follow a different path, so they
ought to grab the lock somewhere else.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati 
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers

2014-10-13T13:41:33+00:00

commit 265b81d23a46c39df0a735a3af4238954b41a4c2 upstream.

Avoids sending a signal to alarm timers created with sigev_notify set to
SIGEV_NONE by checking for that special case in the timeout callback.

The regular posix timers avoid sending signals to SIGEV_NONE timers by
not scheduling any callbacks for them in the first place.  Although it
would be possible to do something similar for alarm timers, it's simpler
to handle this as a special case in the timeout.

Prior to this patch, the alarm timer would ignore the sigev_notify value
and try to deliver signals to the process anyway.  Even worse, the
sanity check for the value of sigev_signo is skipped when SIGEV_NONE was
specified, so the signal number could be bogus.  If sigev_signo was an
unitialized value (as it often would be if SIGEV_NONE is used), then
it's hard to predict which signal will be sent.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati 
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime

2014-10-13T13:41:33+00:00

commit e86fea764991e00a03ff1e56409ec9cacdbda4c9 upstream.

Returns the time remaining for an alarm timer, rather than the time at
which it is scheduled to expire.  If the timer has already expired or it
is not currently scheduled, the it_value's members are set to zero.

This new behavior matches that of the other posix-timers and the POSIX
specifications.

This is a change in user-visible behavior, and may break existing
applications.  Hopefully, few users rely on the old incorrect behavior.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati 
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque 
[jstultz: minor style tweak]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby