Re: [PATCH] drm/etnaviv: only reject timeouts with tv_nsec >= 2 seconds

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 01:55:46PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 12:45:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > As Guido Günther reported, get_abs_timeout() in the etnaviv user space
> > sometimes passes timeouts with nanosecond values larger than 1000000000,
> > which gets rejected after my first patch.
> > 
> > To avoid breaking this, while also not allowing completely arbitrary
> > values, set the limit to 1999999999 and use set_normalized_timespec64()
> > to get the correct format before comparing it.
> 
> I'm seeing values up to 5 seconds so I need
> 
>      if (args->timeout.tv_nsec > (5 * NSEC_PER_SEC))

I assume you're looking at 64-bit, but I suspect userspace needs
looking at considering 32-bit.  If userspace uses a 32-bit tv_nsec
anywhere in the path that it attempts to pass up to 5 seconds in
tv_nsec, then this will fail to pass the correct timeout.

If that is the case, userspace is buggy, and needs fixing not to
pass such large values through tv_nsec irrespective of this issue.

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