On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> hrtimer_forward() does not check for the possible overflow of
> timer->expires. This can happen on 64 bit machines with large interval
> values and results currently in an endless loop in the softirq because
> the expiry value becomes negative and therefor the timer is expired all
> the time.
>
> Check for this condition and set the expiry value to the max. expiry
> time in the future.
>
> The fix should be applied to stable kernel series as well.
Is this relevant for 2.6.16?
I'm asking since KTIME_SEC_MAX is not used in 2.6.16, and therefore the
check in ktime_set() is also missing.
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED],de>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> index ec4cb9f..5e7122d 100644
> --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
> +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
> @@ -644,6 +644,12 @@ hrtimer_forward(struct hrtimer *timer, k
> orun++;
> }
> timer->expires = ktime_add(timer->expires, interval);
> + /*
> + * Make sure, that the result did not wrap with a very large
> + * interval.
> + */
> + if (timer->expires.tv64 < 0)
> + timer->expires = ktime_set(KTIME_SEC_MAX, 0);
>
> return orun;
> }
>
cu
Adrian
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