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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Cap array access in timekeeping_debug</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-23T23:08:22+00:00</published>
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commit a4f8f6667f099036c88f231dcad4cf233652c824 upstream.

It was reported that hibernation could fail on the 2nd attempt, where the
system hangs at hibernate() -&gt; syscore_resume() -&gt; i8237A_resume() -&gt;
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 -&gt; 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 &lt;cosurgi@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Xunlei Pang &lt;xpang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471993702-29148-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a4f8f6667f099036c88f231dcad4cf233652c824 upstream.

It was reported that hibernation could fail on the 2nd attempt, where the
system hangs at hibernate() -&gt; syscore_resume() -&gt; i8237A_resume() -&gt;
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 -&gt; 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 &lt;cosurgi@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Xunlei Pang &lt;xpang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471993702-29148-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path</title>
<updated>2016-02-02T17:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Cochran</name>
<email>richardcochran@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-22T21:19:58+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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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 &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Avoid signed overflow in timekeeping_get_ns()</title>
<updated>2016-02-02T17:38:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-30T01:30:30+00:00</published>
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commit 35a4933a895927990772ae96fdcfd2f806929ee2 upstream.

1e75fa8 "time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec" replaced a call to
clocksource_cyc2ns() from timekeeping_get_ns() with an open-coded version
of the same logic to avoid keeping a semi-redundant struct timespec
in struct timekeeper.

However, the commit also introduced a subtle semantic change - where
clocksource_cyc2ns() uses purely unsigned math, the new version introduces
a signed temporary, meaning that if (delta * tk-&gt;mult) has a 63-bit
overflow the following shift will still give a negative result.  The
choice of 'maxsec' in __clocksource_updatefreq_scale() means this will
generally happen if there's a ~10 minute pause in examining the
clocksource.

This can be triggered on a powerpc KVM guest by stopping it from qemu for
a bit over 10 minutes.  After resuming time has jumped backwards several
minutes causing numerous problems (jiffies does not advance, msleep()s can
be extended by minutes..).  It doesn't happen on x86 KVM guests, because
the guest TSC is effectively frozen while the guest is stopped, which is
not the case for the powerpc timebase.

Obviously an unsigned (64 bit) overflow will only take twice as long as a
signed, 63-bit overflow.  I don't know the time code well enough to know
if that will still cause incorrect calculations, or if a 64-bit overflow
is avoided elsewhere.

Still, an incorrect forwards clock adjustment will cause less trouble than
time going backwards.  So, this patch removes the potential for
intermediate signed overflow.

Suggested-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 35a4933a895927990772ae96fdcfd2f806929ee2 upstream.

1e75fa8 "time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec" replaced a call to
clocksource_cyc2ns() from timekeeping_get_ns() with an open-coded version
of the same logic to avoid keeping a semi-redundant struct timespec
in struct timekeeper.

However, the commit also introduced a subtle semantic change - where
clocksource_cyc2ns() uses purely unsigned math, the new version introduces
a signed temporary, meaning that if (delta * tk-&gt;mult) has a 63-bit
overflow the following shift will still give a negative result.  The
choice of 'maxsec' in __clocksource_updatefreq_scale() means this will
generally happen if there's a ~10 minute pause in examining the
clocksource.

This can be triggered on a powerpc KVM guest by stopping it from qemu for
a bit over 10 minutes.  After resuming time has jumped backwards several
minutes causing numerous problems (jiffies does not advance, msleep()s can
be extended by minutes..).  It doesn't happen on x86 KVM guests, because
the guest TSC is effectively frozen while the guest is stopped, which is
not the case for the powerpc timebase.

Obviously an unsigned (64 bit) overflow will only take twice as long as a
signed, 63-bit overflow.  I don't know the time code well enough to know
if that will still cause incorrect calculations, or if a 64-bit overflow
is avoided elsewhere.

Still, an incorrect forwards clock adjustment will cause less trouble than
time going backwards.  So, this patch removes the potential for
intermediate signed overflow.

Suggested-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;lvivier@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clocksource: Fix abs() usage w/ 64bit values</title>
<updated>2015-10-28T10:33:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-15T01:05:20+00:00</published>
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commit 67dfae0cd72fec5cd158b6e5fb1647b7dbe0834c upstream.

This patch fixes one cases where abs() was being used with 64-bit
nanosecond values, where the result may be capped at 32-bits.

This potentially could cause watchdog false negatives on 32-bit
systems, so this patch addresses the issue by using abs64().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442279124-7309-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 67dfae0cd72fec5cd158b6e5fb1647b7dbe0834c upstream.

This patch fixes one cases where abs() was being used with 64-bit
nanosecond values, where the result may be capped at 32-bits.

This potentially could cause watchdog false negatives on 32-bit
systems, so this patch addresses the issue by using abs64().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442279124-7309-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers/tick/broadcast-hrtimer: Fix suspicious RCU usage in idle loop</title>
<updated>2015-03-30T10:22:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Preeti U Murthy</name>
<email>preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T10:49:27+00:00</published>
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commit a127d2bcf1fbc8c8e0b5cf0dab54f7d3ff50ce47 upstream.

The hrtimer mode of broadcast queues hrtimers in the idle entry
path so as to wakeup cpus in deep idle states. The associated
call graph is :

	cpuidle_idle_call()
	|____ clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, ....))
	     |_____tick_broadcast_set_event()
		   |____clockevents_program_event()
			|____bc_set_next()

The hrtimer_{start/cancel} functions call into tracing which uses RCU.
But it is not legal to call into RCU in cpuidle because it is one of the
quiescent states. Hence protect this region with RCU_NONIDLE which informs
RCU that the cpu is momentarily non-idle.

As an aside it is helpful to point out that the clock event device that is
programmed here is not a per-cpu clock device; it is a
pseudo clock device, used by the broadcast framework alone.
The per-cpu clock device programming never goes through bc_set_next().

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150318104705.17763.56668.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit a127d2bcf1fbc8c8e0b5cf0dab54f7d3ff50ce47 upstream.

The hrtimer mode of broadcast queues hrtimers in the idle entry
path so as to wakeup cpus in deep idle states. The associated
call graph is :

	cpuidle_idle_call()
	|____ clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER, ....))
	     |_____tick_broadcast_set_event()
		   |____clockevents_program_event()
			|____bc_set_next()

The hrtimer_{start/cancel} functions call into tracing which uses RCU.
But it is not legal to call into RCU in cpuidle because it is one of the
quiescent states. Hence protect this region with RCU_NONIDLE which informs
RCU that the cpu is momentarily non-idle.

As an aside it is helpful to point out that the clock event device that is
programmed here is not a per-cpu clock device; it is a
pseudo clock device, used by the broadcast framework alone.
The per-cpu clock device programming never goes through bc_set_next().

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150318104705.17763.56668.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq validation on 32-bit systems</title>
<updated>2015-03-02T15:04:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T07:30:36+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;jwboyer@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Reported-by: George Joseph &lt;george.joseph@fairview5.com&gt;
Tested-by: George Joseph &lt;george.joseph@fairview5.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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 &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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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 &lt;jwboyer@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Reported-by: George Joseph &lt;george.joseph@fairview5.com&gt;
Tested-by: George Joseph &lt;george.joseph@fairview5.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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 &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values</title>
<updated>2015-03-02T15:04:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sasha Levin</name>
<email>sasha.levin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-04T00:25:05+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
[jstultz: Fix up bug for negative values and drop redunent cap check]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
[jstultz: Fix up bug for negative values and drop redunent cap check]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse</title>
<updated>2015-01-15T10:44:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-18T10:51:01+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pan Jacob jun &lt;jacob.jun.pan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: LKP &lt;lkp@01.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pan Jacob jun &lt;jacob.jun.pan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: LKP &lt;lkp@01.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T20:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Larocque</name>
<email>rlarocque@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-10T01:31:05+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T20:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Larocque</name>
<email>rlarocque@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-10T01:31:04+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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