3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: "Hildner, Christian" <christian.hild...@siemens.com> commit 26cff4e2aa4d666dc6a120ea34336b5057e3e187 upstream. Adding two (or more) timers with large values for "expires" (they have to reside within tv5 in the same list) leads to endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer() in case CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is one and jiffies are crossing the value 1 << 18. The bug was introduced between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 (and survived for quite some time). This patch ensures that when cascade() is called timers within tv5 are not added endlessly to their own list again, instead they are added to the next lower tv level tv4 (as expected). Signed-off-by: Christian Hildner <christian.hild...@siemens.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98673c87cb31274881cffe0b65ecc87b0f5fc19...@defthw99ea4msx.ww902.siemens.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- kernel/timer.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_64); #define TVR_SIZE (1 << TVR_BITS) #define TVN_MASK (TVN_SIZE - 1) #define TVR_MASK (TVR_SIZE - 1) +#define MAX_TVAL ((unsigned long)((1ULL << (TVR_BITS + 4*TVN_BITS)) - 1)) struct tvec { struct list_head vec[TVN_SIZE]; @@ -356,11 +357,12 @@ static void internal_add_timer(struct tv vec = base->tv1.vec + (base->timer_jiffies & TVR_MASK); } else { int i; - /* If the timeout is larger than 0xffffffff on 64-bit - * architectures then we use the maximum timeout: + /* If the timeout is larger than MAX_TVAL (on 64-bit + * architectures or with CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=1) then we + * use the maximum timeout. */ - if (idx > 0xffffffffUL) { - idx = 0xffffffffUL; + if (idx > MAX_TVAL) { + idx = MAX_TVAL; expires = idx + base->timer_jiffies; } i = (expires >> (TVR_BITS + 3 * TVN_BITS)) & TVN_MASK; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
