The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 28b92e09e25bdc0ae864b22eacf195a74f861389 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:11:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] x86, vdso, time: Cast tv_nsec to u64 for proper shifting in
 update_vsyscall()

With tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec being a 32-bit value on 32-bit
systems, (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift) in update_vsyscall()
may lose upper bits or, worse, add them since compiler will do this:
        (u64)(tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift)
instead of
        ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift)

So if, for example, tv_nsec is 0x800000 and shift is 8 we will end up
with 0xffffffff80000000 instead of 0x80000000. And then we are stuck in
the subsequent 'while' loop.

We need an explicit cast.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> # v3.14
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
index f9c6e56e14b5..9531fbb123ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
        vdata->monotonic_time_sec       = tk->xtime_sec
                                        + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
        vdata->monotonic_time_snsec     = tk->xtime_nsec
-                                       + (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec
+                                       + ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec
                                                << tk->shift);
        while (vdata->monotonic_time_snsec >=
                                        (((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC) << tk->shift)) {

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