From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland , "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [ 80/98] clockevents: Dont allow dummy broadcast timers Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:43:09 -0700 Message-Id: <20130326224250.791482868@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130326224242.449070940@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130326224242.449070940@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mark Rutland commit a7dc19b8652c862d5b7c4d2339bd3c428bd29c4a upstream. Currently tick_check_broadcast_device doesn't reject clock_event_devices with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY, and may select them in preference to real hardware if they have a higher rating value. In this situation, the dummy timer is responsible for broadcasting to itself, and the core clockevents code may attempt to call non-existent callbacks for programming the dummy, eventually leading to a panic. This patch makes tick_check_broadcast_device always reject dummy timers, preventing this problem. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ static void tick_broadcast_start_periodi */ int tick_check_broadcast_device(struct clock_event_device *dev) { - if ((tick_broadcast_device.evtdev && + if ((dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY) || + (tick_broadcast_device.evtdev && tick_broadcast_device.evtdev->rating >= dev->rating) || (dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP)) return 0;