linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime

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Date:	Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:56:19 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frank v Waveren <fvw@....cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 20:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >   * ktime_t definitions when using the 64-bit scalar representation:
> > @@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ typedef union {
> >   */
> >  static inline ktime_t ktime_set(const long secs, const unsigned long nsecs)
> >  {
> > +#if (BITS_PER_LONG == 64)
> > +	if (unlikely(secs >= KTIME_SEC_MAX))
> > +		return (ktime_t){ .tv64 = KTIME_MAX };
> > +#endif
> >  	return (ktime_t) { .tv64 = (s64)secs * NSEC_PER_SEC + (s64)nsecs };
> >  }
> >  
> 
> This makes my FC3 x86_64 testbox hang during udev startup.  sysrq-T trace at
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/log-x.

Does not help much.

> I had a quick look at the args to hrtimer_nanosleep and all seems to be in
> order.

Hmm. I can not reproduce that on any one of my boxen. Can you please try
with this debug variant, so we have a chance to figure out what's wrong.

	tglx

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc5/include/linux/ktime.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc5.orig/include/linux/ktime.h	2006-08-31 18:58:32.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc5/include/linux/ktime.h	2006-09-01 10:47:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ typedef union {
 } ktime_t;
 
 #define KTIME_MAX			(~((u64)1 << 63))
+#define KTIME_SEC_MAX			(KTIME_MAX / NSEC_PER_SEC)
 
 /*
  * ktime_t definitions when using the 64-bit scalar representation:
@@ -73,6 +74,13 @@ typedef union {
  */
 static inline ktime_t ktime_set(const long secs, const unsigned long nsecs)
 {
+#if (BITS_PER_LONG == 64)
+	if (unlikely(secs >= KTIME_SEC_MAX)) {
+		printk("ktime_set: %ld : %lu\n", secs, nsecs);
+		WARN_ON(1);
+		return (ktime_t){ .tv64 = KTIME_MAX };
+	}
+#endif
 	return (ktime_t) { .tv64 = (s64)secs * NSEC_PER_SEC + (s64)nsecs };
 }
 


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