I've triggered an overflow when using ktime_add_ns() on a 32bit
architecture not supporting CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR.
When passing a very high value for u64 nsec, e.g.
7881299347898368000 the
do_div() function converts this value to seconds (
7881299347) which is
still to high to pass to the ktime_set() function as long. The result in
my case is a negative value.
The problem on my system occurs in the tick-sched.c,
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when time_delta is set to
timekeeping_max_deferment(). The check for time_delta < KTIME_MAX is
valid, thus ktime_add_ns() is called with a too large value resulting in a
negative expire value. This leads to an endless loop in the ticker code:
time_delta:
7881299347898368000
expires = ktime_add_ns(last_update, time_delta)
expires: negative value
This error doesn't occurs on 64bit or architectures supporting
CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR (e.g. ARM, x86-32). 64-bit arches doesn't run into
this problem because ktime_add_ns() can directly calculate the result
without calling do_div() and ktime_set().
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
} else {
unsigned long rem = do_div(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ /* Make sure nsec fits into long */
+ if (unlikely(nsec > KTIME_SEC_MAX))
+ return (ktime_t){ .tv64 = KTIME_MAX };
+
tmp = ktime_set((long)nsec, rem);
}