[RT PATCH 1/2] kernel/cpu_chill: use schedule_hrtimeout()

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Fri Mar 16 2018 - 10:21:52 EST


cpu_chill() uses __hrtimer_nanosleep() with a hack to get
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. It seems to work but it does not.
The problem is that we may have a signal pending and receive a sporadic
wake up _before_ the timer expires. At that point the code will look at
->restart_block and use it based on its value from the previous syscall
resulting in a possible copy-to-user.
Instead all this trouble, we could use schedule_hrtimeout() which is not
an user-space interface and does not have this side effects.

Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
index 6c77643eaf02..c0efc22ba635 100644
--- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/hrtimer.c
@@ -1873,14 +1873,13 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(nanosleep, struct compat_timespec __user *, rqtp,
*/
void cpu_chill(void)
{
- struct timespec64 tu = {
- .tv_nsec = NSEC_PER_MSEC,
- };
+ ktime_t chill_time;
unsigned int freeze_flag = current->flags & PF_NOFREEZE;

+ chill_time = ktime_set(0, NSEC_PER_MSEC);
+ set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
- __hrtimer_nanosleep(&tu, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
- TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ schedule_hrtimeout(&chill_time, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_HARD);
if (!freeze_flag)
current->flags &= ~PF_NOFREEZE;
}
--
2.16.2