From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: [ 05/41] x86: Derandom delay_tsc for 64 bit
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:38:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120316233811.049860515@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120316233829.GA14022@kroah.com>
3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
commit a7f4255f906f60f72e00aad2fb000939449ff32e upstream.
Commit f0fbf0abc093 ("x86: integrate delay functions") converted
delay_tsc() into a random delay generator for 64 bit. The reason is
that it merged the mostly identical versions of delay_32.c and
delay_64.c. Though the subtle difference of the result was:
static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
{
- unsigned bclock, now;
+ unsigned long bclock, now;
Now the function uses rdtscl() which returns the lower 32bit of the
TSC. On 32bit that's not problematic as unsigned long is 32bit. On 64
bit this fails when the lower 32bit are close to wrap around when
bclock is read, because the following check
if ((now - bclock) >= loops)
break;
evaluated to true on 64bit for e.g. bclock = 0xffffffff and now = 0
because the unsigned long (now - bclock) of these values results in
0xffffffff00000001 which is definitely larger than the loops
value. That explains Tvortkos observation:
"Because I am seeing udelay(500) (_occasionally_) being short, and
that by delaying for some duration between 0us (yep) and 491us."
Make those variables explicitely u32 again, so this works for both 32
and 64 bit.
Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ static void delay_loop(unsigned long loo
}
/* TSC based delay: */
-static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops)
+static void delay_tsc(unsigned long __loops)
{
- unsigned long bclock, now;
+ u32 bclock, now, loops = __loops;
int cpu;
preempt_disable();
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2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 01/41] ASoC: neo1973: fix neo1973 wm8753 initialization Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 02/41] ALSA: hda/realtek - Apply the coef-setup only to ALC269VB Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 03/41] aio: fix io_setup/io_destroy race Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 04/41] aio: fix the "too late munmap()" race Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 06/41] PCI: ignore pre-1.1 ASPM quirking when ASPM is disabled Greg KH
2012-03-31 3:23 ` Ken Moffat
2012-03-31 3:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-31 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-31 18:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-04-19 23:21 ` Ken Moffat
2012-04-01 16:11 ` Ken Moffat
2012-04-01 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-01 17:10 ` Greg KH
2012-04-02 20:27 ` Ken Moffat
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 07/41] [media] omap3isp: ccdc: Fix crash in HS/VS interrupt handler Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 08/41] rt2x00: fix random stalls Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 09/41] perf/x86: Fix local vs remote memory events for NHM/WSM Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 10/41] CIFS: Do not kmalloc under the flocks spinlock Greg KH
2012-03-17 2:37 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-17 6:14 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2012-03-17 7:32 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-17 7:52 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2012-03-19 15:50 ` Greg KH
2012-03-19 19:11 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2012-03-19 19:24 ` Greg KH
2012-03-23 17:52 ` Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 11/41] vfs: fix return value from do_last() Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 12/41] vfs: fix double put after complete_walk() Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 13/41] acer-wmi: No wifi rfkill on Lenovo machines Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 14/41] atl1c: dont use highprio tx queue Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 15/41] neighbour: Fixed race condition at tbl->nht Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 16/41] ipsec: be careful of non existing mac headers Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 17/41] ppp: fix ppp_mp_reconstruct bad seq errors Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 18/41] sfc: Fix assignment of ip_summed for pre-allocated skbs Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 19/41] tcp: fix false reordering signal in tcp_shifted_skb Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 20/41] vmxnet3: Fix transport header size Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 21/41] packetengines: fix config default Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 22/41] r8169: corrupted IP fragments fix for large mtu Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 23/41] tcp: dont fragment SACKed skbs in tcp_mark_head_lost() Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 24/41] bridge: check return value of ipv6_dev_get_saddr() Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 25/41] tcp: fix tcp_shift_skb_data() to not shift SACKed data below snd_una Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 26/41] IPv6: Fix not join all-router mcast group when forwarding set Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 27/41] usb: asix: Patch for Sitecom LN-031 Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 28/41] regulator: Fix setting selector in tps6524x set_voltage function Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 29/41] block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 30/41] block, sx8: fix pointer math issue getting fw version Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 31/41] block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 32/41] Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 33/41] sparc32: Add -Av8 to assembler command line Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 34/41] hwmon: (w83627ehf) Fix writing into fan_stop_time for NCT6775F/NCT6776F Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 35/41] hwmon: (w83627ehf) Fix memory leak in probe function Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 36/41] hwmon: (w83627ehf) Fix temp2 source for W83627UHG Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 37/41] rapidio/tsi721: fix bug in register offset definitions Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 38/41] i2c-algo-bit: Fix spurious SCL timeouts under heavy load Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 39/41] iscsi-target: Fix reservation conflict -EBUSY response handling bug Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 40/41] target: Fix compatible reservation handling (CRH=1) with legacy RESERVE/RELEASE Greg KH
2012-03-16 23:38 ` [ 41/41] hwmon: (zl6100) Enable interval between chip accesses for all chips Greg KH
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