Re: [PATCH 061/270] timekeeping: Cast raw_interval to u64 to avoidshift overflow

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Nov 27 2012 - 10:08:17 EST


On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 5b3900cd409466c0070b234d941650685ad0c791 upstream.
>
> We fixed a bunch of integer overflows in timekeeping code during the 3.6
> cycle. I did an audit based on that and found this potential overflow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121009071823.GA19159@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [ herton: adapt for 3.5, timekeeper instead of tk pointer ]
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is also missing from 3.4; looks like Herton's version is
applicable.

Ben.

> ---
> kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> index 63c88c1..8954990 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ static cycle_t logarithmic_accumulation(cycle_t offset, int shift)
> }
>
> /* Accumulate raw time */
> - raw_nsecs = timekeeper.raw_interval << shift;
> + raw_nsecs = (u64)timekeeper.raw_interval << shift;
> raw_nsecs += timekeeper.raw_time.tv_nsec;
> if (raw_nsecs >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
> u64 raw_secs = raw_nsecs;

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Ben Hutchings
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