Patch "time: Avoid undefined behaviour in ktime_add_safe()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    time: Avoid undefined behaviour in ktime_add_safe()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     time-avoid-undefined-behaviour-in-ktime_add_safe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 979515c5645830465739254abc1b1648ada41518 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:37:04 +0200
Subject: time: Avoid undefined behaviour in ktime_add_safe()

From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

commit 979515c5645830465739254abc1b1648ada41518 upstream.

I ran into this:

    ================================================================================
    UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/time/hrtimer.c:310:16
    signed integer overflow:
    9223372036854775807 + 50000 cannot be represented in type 'long long int'
    CPU: 2 PID: 4798 Comm: trinity-c2 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1+ #91
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
     0000000000000000 ffff88010ce6fb88 ffffffff82344740 0000000041b58ab3
     ffffffff84f97a20 ffffffff82344694 ffff88010ce6fbb0 ffff88010ce6fb60
     000000000000c350 ffff88010ce6f968 dffffc0000000000 ffffffff857bc320
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff82344740>] dump_stack+0xac/0xfc
     [<ffffffff82344694>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0xc4/0xc4
     [<ffffffff8242df78>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x8a
     [<ffffffff8242e6b4>] handle_overflow+0x202/0x23d
     [<ffffffff8242e4b2>] ? val_to_string.constprop.6+0x11e/0x11e
     [<ffffffff8236df71>] ? timerqueue_add+0x151/0x410
     [<ffffffff81485c48>] ? hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x3b8/0x1380
     [<ffffffff81795631>] ? memset+0x31/0x40
     [<ffffffff8242e6fd>] __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0xe/0x10
     [<ffffffff81488ac9>] hrtimer_nanosleep+0x5d9/0x790
     [<ffffffff814884f0>] ? hrtimer_init_sleeper+0x80/0x80
     [<ffffffff813a9ffb>] ? __might_sleep+0x5b/0x260
     [<ffffffff8148be10>] common_nsleep+0x20/0x30
     [<ffffffff814906c7>] SyS_clock_nanosleep+0x197/0x210
     [<ffffffff81490530>] ? SyS_clock_getres+0x150/0x150
     [<ffffffff823c7113>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
     [<ffffffff8162ef60>] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.3+0x30/0x1b0
     [<ffffffff81490530>] ? SyS_clock_getres+0x150/0x150
     [<ffffffff81007bd3>] do_syscall_64+0x1b3/0x4b0
     [<ffffffff845f85aa>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    ================================================================================

Add a new ktime_add_unsafe() helper which doesn't check for overflow, but
doesn't throw a UBSAN warning when it does overflow either.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/ktime.h |    7 +++++++
 kernel/time/hrtimer.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/ktime.h
+++ b/include/linux/ktime.h
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ static inline ktime_t ktime_set(const s6
 		({ (ktime_t){ .tv64 = (lhs).tv64 + (rhs).tv64 }; })
 
 /*
+ * Same as ktime_add(), but avoids undefined behaviour on overflow; however,
+ * this means that you must check the result for overflow yourself.
+ */
+#define ktime_add_unsafe(lhs, rhs) \
+		({ (ktime_t){ .tv64 = (u64) (lhs).tv64 + (rhs).tv64 }; })
+
+/*
  * Add a ktime_t variable and a scalar nanosecond value.
  * res = kt + nsval:
  */
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__ktime_divns);
  */
 ktime_t ktime_add_safe(const ktime_t lhs, const ktime_t rhs)
 {
-	ktime_t res = ktime_add(lhs, rhs);
+	ktime_t res = ktime_add_unsafe(lhs, rhs);
 
 	/*
 	 * We use KTIME_SEC_MAX here, the maximum timeout which we can


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vegard.nossum@oracle.com are

queue-4.4/time-avoid-undefined-behaviour-in-ktime_add_safe.patch