[PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers

From: Greg Hackmann
Date: Tue Jul 25 2017 - 15:43:14 EST


Commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") sets a
minimum bound on the alarm timer interval. This minimum bound shouldn't
be applied if the interval is 0. Otherwise, one-shot timers will be
converted into periodic ones.

This patch is specific to 4.11.y and 4.12.y. Older -stable trees have a
slightly different patch, and 4.13-rc2 isn't impacted due to a later
refactoring.

Fixes: ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals")
Reported-by: Ben Fennema <fennema@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index ee2f4202d82a..11e70a38497c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,
* Rate limit to the tick as a hot fix to prevent DOS. Will be
* mopped up later.
*/
- if (timr->it.alarm.interval < TICK_NSEC)
+ if (timr->it.alarm.interval && timr->it.alarm.interval < TICK_NSEC)
timr->it.alarm.interval = TICK_NSEC;

exp = timespec64_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value);
--
2.14.0.rc0.284.gd933b75aa4-goog