linux-kernel - [tip:timers/urgent] alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers

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Date:   Sun, 4 Jun 2017 06:24:49 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     andreyknvl@...gle.com, john.stultz@...aro.org, kcc@...gle.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller@...glegroups.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, dvyukov@...gle.com
Subject: [tip:timers/urgent] alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers

Commit-ID:  f4781e76f90df7aec400635d73ea4c35ee1d4765
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f4781e76f90df7aec400635d73ea4c35ee1d4765
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Tue, 30 May 2017 23:15:34 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 15:21:18 +0200

alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers

Andrey reported a alartimer related RCU stall while fuzzing the kernel with
syzkaller.

The reason for this is an overflow in ktime_add() which brings the
resulting time into negative space and causes immediate expiry of the
timer. The following rearm with a small interval does not bring the timer
back into positive space due to the same issue.

This results in a permanent firing alarmtimer which hogs the CPU.

Use ktime_add_safe() instead which detects the overflow and clamps the
result to KTIME_SEC_MAX.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.802921648@linutronix.de

---
 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 5cb5b00..2b2e032 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ void alarm_start_relative(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t start)
 {
 	struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[alarm->type];
 
-	start = ktime_add(start, base->gettime());
+	start = ktime_add_safe(start, base->gettime());
 	alarm_start(alarm, start);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_start_relative);
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ u64 alarm_forward(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval)
 		overrun++;
 	}
 
-	alarm->node.expires = ktime_add(alarm->node.expires, interval);
+	alarm->node.expires = ktime_add_safe(alarm->node.expires, interval);
 	return overrun;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_forward);
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,
 		ktime_t now;
 
 		now = alarm_bases[timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer.type].gettime();
-		exp = ktime_add(now, exp);
+		exp = ktime_add_safe(now, exp);
 	}
 
 	alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer, exp);