Re: [PATCH -tip v2] sched/cputime: do not scale when utime == 0

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> wrote:

> scale_stime() silently assumes that stime < rtime, otherwise when
> stime == rtime and both values are big enough (operations on them do
> not fit in 32 bits), the resulting scaling stime can be bigger than
> rtime. In consequence utime = rtime - stime results in negative value.
> 
> User space visible symptoms of the bug are overflowed TIME values on
> ps/top, for example:
> 
> ps aux | grep rcu
> root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:00 [rcuc/0]
> root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:00 [rcub/0]
> root        10 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        R    12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
> root        11  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:02 [rcuop/0]
> root        12 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        S    12:42 21114581:35 [rcuop/1]
> root        10 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        R    12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
> 
> or overflowed utime values read directly from /proc/$PID/stat
> 
> Reference:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/20/259
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2 : describe user visible symptoms of the bug
> 
>  kernel/sched/cputime.c |   19 +++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks!

	Ingo