| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:00:16 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: 652732@...s.debian.org, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Underflow in system time reported by getrusage()
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 13:14 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 3.1.5-1
> Severity: minor
>
> I've had the following problem (under zsh-beta):
>
> ypig:~> time ./a.out 0.999
> ./a.out 0.999 2.87s user 18446744073.71s system -2147483648% cpu 2.902 total
>
> Of course, I can't reproduce it. I suppose this problem is quite rare
> and occurs under some particular conditions.
The value reported for system time looks close to the maximum possible
64-bit number of microseconds, presumably resulting from an underflow.
Looking at the Debian source package zsh-beta, version
4.3.15-dev-0+20111220-1, it appears to use getrusage() where available,
and doesn't appear to do any calculations that might cause such
underflow.
Ben.
> I've search on Google and could only find:
>
> http://ftp.zcu.cz/mirrors/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/old/patch-2.6.25-git4.log
>
> which mentions a "very huge system time" problem on IA64 due to
> interrupts. This is unrelated, but could give an idea about a
> possible cause...
[...]
--
Ben Hutchings
Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (829 bytes)
Powered by blists - more mailing lists