user/sven/linux.git/kernel/time, branch v4.11.8

time: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW sub-nanosecond accounting

2017-06-29T11:02:52Z

commit 3d88d56c5873f6eebe23e05c3da701960146b801 upstream. Due to how the MONOTONIC_RAW accumulation logic was handled, there is the potential for a 1ns discontinuity when we do accumulations. This small discontinuity has for the most part gone un-noticed, but since ARM64 enabled CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW in their vDSO clock_gettime implementation, we've seen failures with the inconsistency-check test in kselftest. This patch addresses the issue by using the same sub-ns accumulation handling that CLOCK_MONOTONIC uses, which avoids the issue for in-kernel users. Since the ARM64 vDSO implementation has its own clock_gettime calculation logic, this patch reduces the frequency of errors, but failures are still seen. The ARM64 vDSO will need to be updated to include the sub-nanosecond xtime_nsec values in its calculation for this issue to be completely fixed. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Tested-by: Daniel Mentz Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Miroslav Lichvar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Fix clock->read(clock) race around clocksource changes

2017-06-29T11:02:51Z

commit ceea5e3771ed2378668455fa21861bead7504df5 upstream. In tests, which excercise switching of clocksources, a NULL pointer dereference can be observed on AMR64 platforms in the clocksource read() function: u64 clocksource_mmio_readl_down(struct clocksource *c) { return ~(u64)readl_relaxed(to_mmio_clksrc(c)->reg) & c->mask; } This is called from the core timekeeping code via: cycle_now = tkr->read(tkr->clock); tkr->read is the cached tkr->clock->read() function pointer. When the clocksource is changed then tkr->clock and tkr->read are updated sequentially. The code above results in a sequential load operation of tkr->read and tkr->clock as well. If the store to tkr->clock hits between the loads of tkr->read and tkr->clock, then the old read() function is called with the new clock pointer. As a consequence the read() function dereferences a different data structure and the resulting 'reg' pointer can point anywhere including NULL. This problem was introduced when the timekeeping code was switched over to use struct tk_read_base. Before that, it was theoretically possible as well when the compiler decided to reload clock in the code sequence: now = tk->clock->read(tk->clock); Add a helper function which avoids the issue by reading tk_read_base->clock once into a local variable clk and then issue the read function via clk->read(clk). This guarantees that the read() function always gets the proper clocksource pointer handed in. Since there is now no use for the tkr.read pointer, this patch also removes it, and to address stopping the fast timekeeper during suspend/resume, it introduces a dummy clocksource to use rather then just a dummy read function. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Richard Cochran Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Miroslav Lichvar Cc: Daniel Mentz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals

2017-06-24T05:06:21Z

commit ff86bf0c65f14346bf2440534f9ba5ac232c39a0 upstream. 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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.896767100@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers

2017-06-24T05:06:21Z

commit f4781e76f90df7aec400635d73ea4c35ee1d4765 upstream. 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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.802921648@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-03-07T22:45:22Z

Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This includes a fix for lockups caused by incorrect nsecs related cleanup, and a capabilities check fix for timerfd" * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC timerfd: Only check CAP_WAKE_ALARM when it is needed

jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC

2017-03-07T10:03:28Z

commit 93825f2ec736 converted NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC because the author confused NSEC_PER_JIFFY with NSEC_PER_SEC. As a result, the calculation of refined jiffies got broken, triggering lockups. Fixes: 93825f2ec736 ("jiffies: Reuse TICK_NSEC instead of NSEC_PER_JIFFY") Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488880534-3777-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

sched/headers: Prepare to move exit_files() and exit_itimers() from to

2017-03-02T07:42:40Z

But first update the usage site. 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 cputime functionality from into

2017-03-02T07:42:39Z

Introduce a trivial, mostly empty header to prepare for the moving of cputime functionality out of sched.h. Update all code that relies on these facilities. 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 for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34Z

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 for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34Z