Re: [PATCH] time: sched_clock: fix integer overflow

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Jul 29 2013 - 14:41:53 EST


On 07/28/13 22:59, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Thomas, John,
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:46:53PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
>> The expression '(1 << 32)' happens to evaluate as 0 on ARM, but it evaluates as
>> 1 on xtensa and x86_64. This zeros sched_clock_mask, and breaks sched_clock().
>> Set the type of 1 to 'unsigned long long' to get the value we need.
> Ping? -rc3 is out, and this bug (which currently breaks xtensa) is not fixed
> yet. Please consider applying.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
>> Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/time/sched_clock.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/time/sched_clock.c b/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
>> index a326f27..0b479a6 100644
>> --- a/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
>> +++ b/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
>> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ void __init setup_sched_clock(u32 (*read)(void), int bits, unsigned long rate)
>> BUG_ON(bits > 32);
>> WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
>> read_sched_clock = read;
>> - sched_clock_mask = (1 << bits) - 1;
>> + sched_clock_mask = (1ULL << bits) - 1;
>> cd.rate = rate;
>>
>> /* calculate the mult/shift to convert counter ticks to ns. */
>> --


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