Re: [PATCH] time: Cast tv_nsec to u64 for proper shifting in update_vsyscall()

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 05/09/2014 12:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/09/2014 08:59 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 05/09/2014 11:43 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2014 08:11 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>> With tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec being a 32-bit value on 32-bit
>>>> systems, (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift) in
>>>> update_vsyscall()
>>>> may lose upper bits or, worse, add them since compiler will do this:
>>>>      (u64)(tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift)
>>>> instead of
>>>>      ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift)
>>>>
>>>> So if, for example, tv_nsec is 0x800000 and shift is 8 we will end up
>>>> with 0xffffffff80000000 instead of 0x80000000. And then we are stuck in
>>>> the subsequent 'while' loop.
>>>>
>>>> We need explicit cast.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
>>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>>> This is needed in stable only for v3.14, right?
>> I suspect anything that has commit 650ea024 needs to be fixed. I see
>> this code, for example, in 3.12 (it used to be in vsyscall_64.c).
>>
> But you're talking about 32-bit platforms.  Vsyscalls aren't used on
> x86-32 until 3.14.  Am I missing something?

Oh, yes, of course. I was just looking at code without thinking. 3.14 
only then.

-boris