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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stefani@seibold.net,
	luto@amacapital.net, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] time: Cast tv_nsec to u64 for proper shifting in update_vsyscall()
Date: Fri,  9 May 2014 11:11:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399648287-15178-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> (raw)

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
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
index f9c6e56..9531fbb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
 	vdata->monotonic_time_sec	= tk->xtime_sec
 					+ tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
 	vdata->monotonic_time_snsec	= tk->xtime_nsec
-					+ (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec
+					+ ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec
 						<< tk->shift);
 	while (vdata->monotonic_time_snsec >=
 					(((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC) << tk->shift)) {
-- 
1.7.1


             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09 15:11 Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2014-05-09 15:43 ` [PATCH] time: Cast tv_nsec to u64 for proper shifting in update_vsyscall() H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-09 15:59   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-05-09 16:03     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-09 16:23       ` Boris Ostrovsky

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