linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ktime_add_ns() may overflow on 32bit architectures

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Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:53:55 +0100
From:	David Engraf <david.engraf@...go.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ktime_add_ns() may overflow on 32bit architectures

Am 19.03.2013 13:38, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 13:29 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've triggered an overflow when using ktime_add_ns() on a 32bit
>> architecture not supporting CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR.
>>
>> When passing a very high value for u64 nsec, e.g. 7881299347898368000
>> the do_div() function converts this value to seconds (7881299347) which
>> is still to high to pass to the ktime_set() function as long. The result
>> in my case is a negative value.
>>
>> The problem on my system occurs in the tick-sched.c,
>> tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when time_delta is set to
>> timekeeping_max_deferment(). The check for time_delta < KTIME_MAX is
>> valid, thus ktime_add_ns() is called with a too large value resulting in
>> a negative expire value. This leads to an endless loop in the ticker code:
>>
>> time_delta: 7881299347898368000
>> expires = ktime_add_ns(last_update, time_delta)
>> expires: negative value
>>
>> This error doesn't occurs on 64bit or architectures supporting
>> CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR (e.g. ARM, x86-32).
>>
>> Best regards
>> - David
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@...go.com>
>>
>
> But check already exists for 64bit arches in ktime_set()
>

Yes, but not for 32bit arches. 64-bit arches doesn't run into this 
problem because ktime_add_ns() can directly calculate the result without 
calling do_div() and ktime_set().

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