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<title>timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression</title>
<updated>2016-10-23T23:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2016-10-05T02:55:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 58bfea9532552d422bde7afa207e1a0f08dffa7d ]

In commit 27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code
the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include
the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
function's output, which impacts users like perf.

This results in bogus perf timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]   253.427536:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426573:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426687:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426800:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426905:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427022:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427127:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427239:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427346:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427463:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   255.426572:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]    39.953768:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.064839:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.175956:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.287103:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.398217:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.509324:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.620437:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.731546:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.842654:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.953772:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    41.064881:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert
the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed.

Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after
the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has
landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as
well.

Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a
perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon.

Fixes: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;bgregg@netflix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 58bfea9532552d422bde7afa207e1a0f08dffa7d ]

In commit 27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), I changed the logic to open-code
the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but I forgot to include
the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
function's output, which impacts users like perf.

This results in bogus perf timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]   253.427536:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426573:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426687:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426800:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.426905:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427022:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427127:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427239:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427346:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   254.427463:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]   255.426572:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Instead of more reasonable expected timestamps like:
 swapper     0 [000]    39.953768:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.064839:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.175956:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.287103:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.398217:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.509324:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.620437:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.731546:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.842654:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    40.953772:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
 swapper     0 [000]    41.064881:  111111111 cpu-clock:  ffffffff810a0de6 native_safe_halt+0x6 ([kernel.kallsyms])

Add the proper use of timekeeping_delta_to_ns() to convert
the cycle delta to nanoseconds as needed.

Thanks to Brendan and Alexei for finding this quickly after
the v4.8 release. Unfortunately the problematic commit has
landed in some -stable trees so they'll need this fix as
well.

Many apologies for this mistake. I'll be looking to add a
perf-clock sanity test to the kselftest timers tests soon.

Fixes: 27727df240c7 "timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"
Reported-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;bgregg@netflix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475636148-26539-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>time: Add cycles to nanoseconds translation</title>
<updated>2016-10-23T23:37:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christopher S. Hall</name>
<email>christopher.s.hall@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-22T11:15:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 ]

The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate
externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count
is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to
the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns()
calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to
tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows
clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a
cycle count that can be transformed to system time.

Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall &lt;christopher.s.hall@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6bd58f09e1d8cc6c50a824c00bf0d617919986a1 ]

The timekeeping code does not currently provide a way to translate
externally provided clocksource cycles to system time. The cycle count
is always provided by the result clocksource read() method internal to
the timekeeping code. The added function timekeeping_cycles_to_ns()
calculated a nanosecond value from a cycle count that can be added to
tk_read_base.base value yielding the current system time. This allows
clocksource cycle values external to the timekeeping code to provide a
cycle count that can be transformed to system time.

Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: kevin.b.stanton@intel.com
Cc: kevin.j.clarke@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christopher S. Hall &lt;christopher.s.hall@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Cap array access in timekeeping_debug</title>
<updated>2016-08-31T23:21:09+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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[ Upstream commit a4f8f6667f099036c88f231dcad4cf233652c824 ]

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: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a4f8f6667f099036c88f231dcad4cf233652c824 ]

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: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Avoid taking lock in NMI path with CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING</title>
<updated>2016-08-31T23:21:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-23T23:08:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 27727df240c7cc84f2ba6047c6f18d5addfd25ef ]

When I added some extra sanity checking in timekeeping_get_ns() under
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING, I missed that the NMI safe __ktime_get_fast_ns()
method was using timekeeping_get_ns().

Thus the locking added to the debug checks broke the NMI-safety of
__ktime_get_fast_ns().

This patch open-codes the timekeeping_get_ns() logic for
__ktime_get_fast_ns(), so can avoid any deadlocks in NMI.

Fixes: 4ca22c2648f9 "timekeeping: Add warnings when overflows or underflows are observed"
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471993702-29148-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 27727df240c7cc84f2ba6047c6f18d5addfd25ef ]

When I added some extra sanity checking in timekeeping_get_ns() under
CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING, I missed that the NMI safe __ktime_get_fast_ns()
method was using timekeeping_get_ns().

Thus the locking added to the debug checks broke the NMI-safety of
__ktime_get_fast_ns().

This patch open-codes the timekeeping_get_ns() logic for
__ktime_get_fast_ns(), so can avoid any deadlocks in NMI.

Fixes: 4ca22c2648f9 "timekeeping: Add warnings when overflows or underflows are observed"
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471993702-29148-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix_cpu_timer: Exit early when process has been reaped</title>
<updated>2016-08-06T16:52:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-07T22:39:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2c13ce8f6b2f6fd9ba2f9261b1939fc0f62d1307 ]

Variable "now" seems to be genuinely used unintialized
if branch

	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer-&gt;it_clock)) {

is not taken and branch

	if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) {

is taken. In this case the process has been reaped and the timer is marked as
disarmed anyway. So none of the postprocessing of the sample is
required. Return right away.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707223911.GA26483@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2c13ce8f6b2f6fd9ba2f9261b1939fc0f62d1307 ]

Variable "now" seems to be genuinely used unintialized
if branch

	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer-&gt;it_clock)) {

is not taken and branch

	if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) {

is taken. In this case the process has been reaped and the timer is marked as
disarmed anyway. So none of the postprocessing of the sample is
required. Return right away.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707223911.GA26483@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path</title>
<updated>2016-02-01T19:46:08+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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[ Upstream commit 1b9f23727abb92c5e58f139e7d180befcaa06fe0 ]

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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1b9f23727abb92c5e58f139e7d180befcaa06fe0 ]

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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Avoid signed overflow in timekeeping_get_ns()</title>
<updated>2016-02-01T16:37:05+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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=51975a203210d3a94a7711651b1045ed0e3514ed'/>
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[ Upstream commit 35a4933a895927990772ae96fdcfd2f806929ee2 ]

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  (3.7+)
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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 35a4933a895927990772ae96fdcfd2f806929ee2 ]

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  (3.7+)
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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Fix timekeeping_freqadjust()'s incorrect use of abs() instead of abs64()</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T21:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T23:07:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a5428d82f04e051e9c0d1da2b353c21be01600c7'/>
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commit 2619d7e9c92d524cb155ec89fd72875321512e5b upstream.

The internal clocksteering done for fine-grained error
correction uses a logarithmic approximation, so any time
adjtimex() adjusts the clock steering, timekeeping_freqadjust()
quickly approximates the correct clock frequency over a series
of ticks.

Unfortunately, the logic in timekeeping_freqadjust(), introduced
in commit:

  dc491596f639 ("timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz")

used the abs() function with a s64 error value to calculate the
size of the approximated adjustment to be made.

Per include/linux/kernel.h:

  "abs() should not be used for 64-bit types (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64()".

Thus on 32-bit platforms, this resulted in the clocksteering to
take a quite dampended random walk trying to converge on the
proper frequency, which caused the adjustments to be made much
slower then intended (most easily observed when large
adjustments are made).

This patch fixes the issue by using abs64() instead.

Reported-by: Nuno Gonçalves &lt;nunojpg@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nuno Goncalves &lt;nunojpg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441840051-20244-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2619d7e9c92d524cb155ec89fd72875321512e5b upstream.

The internal clocksteering done for fine-grained error
correction uses a logarithmic approximation, so any time
adjtimex() adjusts the clock steering, timekeeping_freqadjust()
quickly approximates the correct clock frequency over a series
of ticks.

Unfortunately, the logic in timekeeping_freqadjust(), introduced
in commit:

  dc491596f639 ("timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz")

used the abs() function with a s64 error value to calculate the
size of the approximated adjustment to be made.

Per include/linux/kernel.h:

  "abs() should not be used for 64-bit types (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64()".

Thus on 32-bit platforms, this resulted in the clocksteering to
take a quite dampended random walk trying to converge on the
proper frequency, which caused the adjustments to be made much
slower then intended (most easily observed when large
adjustments are made).

This patch fixes the issue by using abs64() instead.

Reported-by: Nuno Gonçalves &lt;nunojpg@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nuno Goncalves &lt;nunojpg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar &lt;mlichvar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441840051-20244-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ktime: Fix ktime_divns to do signed division</title>
<updated>2015-05-13T08:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-08T20:47:23+00:00</published>
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It was noted that the 32bit implementation of ktime_divns()
was doing unsigned division and didn't properly handle
negative values.

And when a ktime helper was changed to utilize
ktime_divns, it caused a regression on some IR blasters.
See the following bugzilla for details:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200353

This patch fixes the problem in ktime_divns by checking
and preserving the sign bit, and then reapplying it if
appropriate after the division, it also changes the return
type to a s64 to make it more obvious this is expected.

Nicolas also pointed out that negative dividers would
cause infinite loops on 32bit systems, negative dividers
is unlikely for users of this function, but out of caution
this patch adds checks for negative dividers for both
32-bit (BUG_ON) and 64-bit(WARN_ON) versions to make sure
no such use cases creep in.

[ tglx: Hand an u64 to do_div() to avoid the compiler warning ]

Fixes: 166afb64511e 'ktime: Sanitize ktime_to_us/ms conversion'
Reported-and-tested-by: Trevor Cordes &lt;trevor@tecnopolis.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431118043-23452-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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It was noted that the 32bit implementation of ktime_divns()
was doing unsigned division and didn't properly handle
negative values.

And when a ktime helper was changed to utilize
ktime_divns, it caused a regression on some IR blasters.
See the following bugzilla for details:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200353

This patch fixes the problem in ktime_divns by checking
and preserving the sign bit, and then reapplying it if
appropriate after the division, it also changes the return
type to a s64 to make it more obvious this is expected.

Nicolas also pointed out that negative dividers would
cause infinite loops on 32bit systems, negative dividers
is unlikely for users of this function, but out of caution
this patch adds checks for negative dividers for both
32-bit (BUG_ON) and 64-bit(WARN_ON) versions to make sure
no such use cases creep in.

[ tglx: Hand an u64 to do_div() to avoid the compiler warning ]

Fixes: 166afb64511e 'ktime: Sanitize ktime_to_us/ms conversion'
Reported-and-tested-by: Trevor Cordes &lt;trevor@tecnopolis.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431118043-23452-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-05-09T21:57:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-09T21:57:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=95f3b1f4b1df4716ce2db8aa2243b7e288eeb9a7'/>
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Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A simple fix to actually shut down a detached device instead of
  keeping it active"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  clockevents: Shutdown detached clockevent device
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Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A simple fix to actually shut down a detached device instead of
  keeping it active"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  clockevents: Shutdown detached clockevent device
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