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* [patch] time: cast ->raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow
@ 2012-10-09  7:18 Dan Carpenter
  2012-10-09 19:14 ` John Stultz
  2012-10-09 19:50 ` [tip:timers/core] timekeeping: Cast raw_interval " tip-bot for Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2012-10-09  7:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Stultz; +Cc: Thomas Gleixner, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

We fixed a bunch of integer overflows in timekeeping code during the 3.6
cycle.  I did an audit based on that and found this potential overflow.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
I'm not super familiar with this code so please review my work
carefully.

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 5ce06a3..1d1ee67 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ static cycle_t logarithmic_accumulation(struct timekeeper *tk, cycle_t offset,
 	accumulate_nsecs_to_secs(tk);
 
 	/* Accumulate raw time */
-	raw_nsecs = tk->raw_interval << shift;
+	raw_nsecs = (u64)tk->raw_interval << shift;
 	raw_nsecs += tk->raw_time.tv_nsec;
 	if (raw_nsecs >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
 		u64 raw_secs = raw_nsecs;

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