user/sven/linux.git/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c, branch v4.0

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12Z

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting the restart block is a very juicy exploit target. This is because the restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack. Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by making the restart_block harder to locate. Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy targets, at least on some architectures. It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less identical on all architectures. [james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kees Cook Cc: David Miller Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Russell King Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Steven Miao Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Jesper Nilsson Cc: David Howells Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Tested-by: Michael Ellerman (powerpc) Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback

2014-09-12T20:59:12Z

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: stable@vger.kernel.org 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

alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers

2014-09-12T20:59:12Z

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: stable@vger.kernel.org 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

alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime

2014-09-12T20:59:11Z

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: stable@vger.kernel.org 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

Merge tag 'staging-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

2014-08-05T01:36:12Z

Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big pull request for the staging driver tree for 3.17-rc1. Lots of things in here, over 2000 patches, but the best part is this: 1480 files changed, 39070 insertions(+), 254659 deletions(-) Thanks to the great work of Kristina Martšenko, 14 different staging drivers have been removed from the tree as they were obsolete and no one was willing to work on cleaning them up. Other than the driver removals, loads of cleanups are in here (comedi, lustre, etc.) as well as the usual IIO driver updates and additions. All of this has been in the linux-next tree for a while" * tag 'staging-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (2199 commits) staging: comedi: addi_apci_1564: remove diagnostic interrupt support code staging: comedi: addi_apci_1564: add subdevice to check diagnostic status staging: wlan-ng: coding style problem fix staging: wlan-ng: fixing coding style problems staging: comedi: ii_pci20kc: request and ioremap memory staging: lustre: bitwise vs logical typo staging: dgnc: Remove unneeded dgnc_trace.c and dgnc_trace.h staging: dgnc: rephrase comment staging: comedi: ni_tio: remove some dead code staging: rtl8723au: Fix static symbol sparse warning staging: rtl8723au: usb_dvobj_init(): Remove unused variable 'pdev_desc' staging: rtl8723au: Do not duplicate kernel provided USB macros staging: rtl8723au: Remove never set struct pwrctrl_priv.bHWPowerdown staging: rtl8723au: Remove two never set variables staging: rtl8723au: RSSI_test is never set staging:r8190: coding style: Fixed checkpatch reported Error staging:r8180: coding style: Fixed too long lines staging:r8180: coding style: Fixed commenting style staging: lustre: ptlrpc: lproc_ptlrpc.c - fix dereferenceing user space buffer staging: lustre: ldlm: ldlm_resource.c - fix dereferenceing user space buffer ...

alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absolute

2014-07-08T08:49:36Z

Sharvil noticed with the posix timer_settime interface, using the CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM or CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM clockid, if the users tried to specify a relative time timer, it would incorrectly be treated as absolute regardless of the state of the flags argument. This patch corrects this, properly checking the absolute/relative flag, as well as adds further error checking that no invalid flag bits are set. Reported-by: Sharvil Nanavati Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Sharvil Nanavati Cc: stable #3.0+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404767171-6902-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

alarmtimer: Export symbols of alarmtimer_get_rtcdev

2014-06-20T00:30:57Z

Export symbol of alarmtimer_get_rtcdev so that it is used by any driver when built as module like, drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c. CC: John Stultz CC: Marcus Gelderie Signed-off-by: Pramod Gurav Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

2013-10-18T23:23:58Z

Fedora Ruby maintainer reported latest Ruby doesn't work on Fedora Rawhide on ARM. (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9008) Because of, commit 1c6b39ad3f (alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is present) intruduced to return ENOTSUPP when clock_get{time,res} can't find a RTC device. However this is incorrect. First, ENOTSUPP isn't exported to userland (ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUP are the closest userland equivlents). Second, Posix and Linux man pages agree that clock_gettime and clock_getres should return EINVAL if clk_id argument is invalid. While the arugment that the clockid is valid, but just not supported on this hardware could be made, this is just a technicality that doesn't help userspace applicaitons, and only complicates error handling. Thus, this patch changes the code to use EINVAL. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: stable #3.0 and up Reported-by: Vit Ondruch Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro [jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational] Signed-off-by: John Stultz

alarmtimer: Export symbols of functions declared in linux/alarmtimer.h

2013-06-12T21:02:12Z

Export symbols so they can be used by drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c if it is built as a module. So far alarm-dev is built-in but module support is planned (see drivers/staging/android/TODO). Signed-off-by: Marcus Gelderie [jstultz: tweaked commit message, also export newly added functions] Signed-off-by: John Stultz

alarmtimer: Add functions for timerfd support

2013-05-29T19:57:34Z

Add functions needed for hooking up alarmtimer to timerfd: * alarm_restart: Similar to hrtimer_restart, restart an alarmtimer after the expires time has already been updated (as with alarm_forward). * alarm_forward_now: Similar to hrtimer_forward_now, move the expires time forward to an interval from the current time of the associated clock. * alarm_start_relative: Start an alarmtimer with an expires time relative to the current time of the associated clock. * alarm_expires_remaining: Similar to hrtimer_expires_remaining, return the amount of time remaining until alarm expiry. Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor Signed-off-by: John Stultz