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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2006-03-25 03:06:33 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-25 08:22:48 -0800 |
commit | c08b8a49100715b20e6f7c997e992428b5e06078 (patch) | |
tree | 014758fb05908a3d49eeadc77f16dfa7585b12ac /kernel | |
parent | 185ae6d7a32721e9062030a9f2d24ed714fa45df (diff) | |
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[PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup
alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds. The
value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the
itimer. The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes
the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX.
Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted
to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion. It's
not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the
timeval_to_jiffies code.
hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as
already expired. This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a
timeout value > INT_MAX seconds.
For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds
value to avoid API breakage. Instead of doing this in all implementations
of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function
in itimer.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/itimer.c | 37 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/timer.c | 14 |
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index 379be2f..a2dc375 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -226,6 +226,43 @@ again: return 0; } +/** + * alarm_setitimer - set alarm in seconds + * + * @seconds: number of seconds until alarm + * 0 disables the alarm + * + * Returns the remaining time in seconds of a pending timer or 0 when + * the timer is not active. + * + * On 32 bit machines the seconds value is limited to (INT_MAX/2) to avoid + * negative timeval settings which would cause immediate expiry. + */ +unsigned int alarm_setitimer(unsigned int seconds) +{ + struct itimerval it_new, it_old; + +#if BITS_PER_LONG < 64 + if (seconds > INT_MAX) + seconds = INT_MAX; +#endif + it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds; + it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0; + it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0; + + do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old); + + /* + * We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending ... And we'd + * better return too much than too little anyway + */ + if ((!it_old.it_value.tv_sec && it_old.it_value.tv_usec) || + it_old.it_value.tv_usec >= 500000) + it_old.it_value.tv_sec++; + + return it_old.it_value.tv_sec; +} + asmlinkage long sys_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval __user *value, struct itimerval __user *ovalue) diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 17d956c..13fa72c 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -956,19 +956,7 @@ void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs) */ asmlinkage unsigned long sys_alarm(unsigned int seconds) { - struct itimerval it_new, it_old; - unsigned int oldalarm; - - it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0; - it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds; - it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0; - do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old); - oldalarm = it_old.it_value.tv_sec; - /* ehhh.. We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending.. */ - /* And we'd better return too much than too little anyway */ - if ((!oldalarm && it_old.it_value.tv_usec) || it_old.it_value.tv_usec >= 500000) - oldalarm++; - return oldalarm; + return alarm_setitimer(seconds); } #endif |