linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] timer fix

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Message-ID: <20181221123453.GA102366@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:34:53 +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 fix

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: 0e334db6bb4b1fd1e2d72c1f3d8f004313cd9f94 posix-timers: Fix division by zero bug

Fix a division by zero crash in the posix-timers code.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
      posix-timers: Fix division by zero bug


 kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index bd62b5eeb5a0..31f49ae80f43 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -289,9 +289,6 @@ static void common_hrtimer_rearm(struct k_itimer *timr)
 {
 	struct hrtimer *timer = &timr->it.real.timer;
 
-	if (!timr->it_interval)
-		return;
-
 	timr->it_overrun += hrtimer_forward(timer, timer->base->get_time(),
 					    timr->it_interval);
 	hrtimer_restart(timer);
@@ -317,7 +314,7 @@ void posixtimer_rearm(struct kernel_siginfo *info)
 	if (!timr)
 		return;
 
-	if (timr->it_requeue_pending == info->si_sys_private) {
+	if (timr->it_interval && timr->it_requeue_pending == info->si_sys_private) {
 		timr->kclock->timer_rearm(timr);
 
 		timr->it_active = 1;