[PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30T08:40:54Z

Frank v. Waveren pointed out that on 64bit machines the timespec to
ktime_t conversion might overflow. This is also true for timeval to
ktime_t conversions. This breaks a "sleep inf" on 64bit machines.

While a timespec/timeval with tx.sec = MAX_LONG is valid by
specification the internal representation of ktime_t is based on
nanoseconds. The conversion of seconds to nanoseconds overflows for
seconds values >= (MAX_LONG / NSEC_PER_SEC).

Check the seconds argument to the conversion and limit it to the maximum
time which can be represented by ktime_t.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/include/linux/ktime.h b/include/linux/ktime.h
index ed3396d..1beafb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/ktime.h
+++ b/include/linux/ktime.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ typedef union {
} ktime_t;

#define KTIME_MAX (~((u64)1 << 63))
+#define KTIME_SEC_MAX (KTIME_MAX / NSEC_PER_SEC)

/*
* ktime_t definitions when using the 64-bit scalar representation:
@@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ typedef union {
*/
static inline ktime_t ktime_set(const long secs, const unsigned long nsecs)
{
+#if (BITS_PER_LONG == 64)
+ if (unlikely(secs >= KTIME_SEC_MAX))
+ return (ktime_t){ .tv64 = KTIME_MAX };
+#endif
return (ktime_t) { .tv64 = (s64)secs * NSEC_PER_SEC + (s64)nsecs };
}