linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] timer fixes

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:36:41 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] timer fixes

Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: fa3aa7a54fe6d3abf128f13cd4bbd40eaa48fed2 jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC

This includes a fix for lockups caused by incorrect nsecs related cleanup, and a 
capabilities check fix for timerfd.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Frederic Weisbecker (1):
      jiffies: Revert bogus conversion of NSEC_PER_SEC to TICK_NSEC

Stephen Smalley (1):
      timerfd: Only check CAP_WAKE_ALARM when it is needed


 fs/timerfd.c          | 8 ++++----
 kernel/time/jiffies.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c
index 384fa759a563..c543cdb5f8ed 100644
--- a/fs/timerfd.c
+++ b/fs/timerfd.c
@@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timerfd_create, int, clockid, int, flags)
 	     clockid != CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) &&
-	    (clockid == CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM ||
-	     clockid == CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM))
+	if ((clockid == CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM ||
+	     clockid == CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM) &&
+	    !capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static int do_timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
 		return ret;
 	ctx = f.file->private_data;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) && isalarm(ctx)) {
+	if (isalarm(ctx) && !capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM)) {
 		fdput(f);
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index 7906b3f0c41a..497719127bf9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int register_refined_jiffies(long cycles_per_second)
 	shift_hz += cycles_per_tick/2;
 	do_div(shift_hz, cycles_per_tick);
 	/* Calculate nsec_per_tick using shift_hz */
-	nsec_per_tick = (u64)TICK_NSEC << 8;
+	nsec_per_tick = (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC << 8;
 	nsec_per_tick += (u32)shift_hz/2;
 	do_div(nsec_per_tick, (u32)shift_hz);