netdev - [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] timekeeping: Evaluate system_counterval_t.cs

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

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20231215220612.173603-6-peter.hilber@opensynergy.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:06:10 +0100
From: Peter Hilber <peter.hilber@...nsynergy.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Hilber <peter.hilber@...nsynergy.com>,
	"D, Lakshmi Sowjanya" <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	jstultz@...gle.com,
	giometti@...eenne.com,
	corbet@....net,
	andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
	"Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@...el.com>,
	"Hall, Christopher S" <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	x86@...nel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] timekeeping: Evaluate system_counterval_t.cs_id instead of .cs

Clocksource pointers can be problematic to obtain for drivers which are not
clocksource drivers themselves. In particular, the RFC virtio_rtc driver
[1] would require a new helper function to obtain a pointer to the Arm
Generic Timer clocksource. The ptp_kvm driver also required a similar
workaround.

Address this by evaluating the clocksource ID, rather than the clocksource
pointer, of struct system_counterval_t. By this, setting the clocksource
pointer becomes unneeded, and it will be dropped from struct
system_counterval_t in the future. By this, get_device_system_crosststamp()
callers (such as virtio_rtc and ptp_kvm) will no longer need to supply
clocksource pointers.

This change should not alter any behavior, as the struct
system_counterval_t clocksource ID is already being set wherever the
clocksource pointer is set. get_device_system_crosststamp() will now fail
if the clocksource has id CSID_GENERIC, but all currently relevant
clocksources have a custom clocksource id.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230818012014.212155-1-peter.hilber@opensynergy.com/

Signed-off-by: Peter Hilber <peter.hilber@...nsynergy.com>
---

Notes:
    v2:
    
    - Refer to clocksource IDs as such in comments (Thomas Gleixner).
    
    - Update comments which were still referring to clocksource pointers.

 include/linux/timekeeping.h | 10 +++++-----
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c   |  9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
index 74dc7c8b036f..75e957171bd5 100644
--- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
+++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
@@ -267,13 +267,13 @@ struct system_device_crosststamp {
 };
 
 /**
- * struct system_counterval_t - system counter value with the pointer to the
+ * struct system_counterval_t - system counter value with the ID of the
  *				corresponding clocksource
  * @cycles:	System counter value
- * @cs:		Clocksource corresponding to system counter value. Used by
- *		timekeeping code to verify comparibility of two cycle values
- * @cs_id:	Clocksource ID corresponding to system counter value. To be
- *		used instead of cs in the future.
+ * @cs:		Clocksource corresponding to system counter value. Timekeeping
+ *		code now evaluates cs_id instead.
+ * @cs_id:	Clocksource ID corresponding to system counter value. Used by
+ *		timekeeping code to verify comparability of two cycle values.
  *		The default ID, CSID_GENERIC, does not identify a specific
  *		clocksource.
  */
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 266d02809dbb..0ff065c5d25b 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1232,11 +1232,12 @@ int get_device_system_crosststamp(int (*get_time_fn)
 			return ret;
 
 		/*
-		 * Verify that the clocksource associated with the captured
-		 * system counter value is the same as the currently installed
-		 * timekeeper clocksource
+		 * Verify that the clocksource ID associated with the captured
+		 * system counter value is the same as for the currently
+		 * installed timekeeper clocksource
 		 */
-		if (tk->tkr_mono.clock != system_counterval.cs)
+		if (system_counterval.cs_id == CSID_GENERIC ||
+		    tk->tkr_mono.clock->id != system_counterval.cs_id)
 			return -ENODEV;
 		cycles = system_counterval.cycles;
 
-- 
2.40.1