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[PATCH] s390: next_timer_interrupt overflow in stop_hz_timer 

The 32 bit unsigned substraction (next - jiffies) in stop_hz_timer can
overflow if jiffies gets advanced between next_timer_interrupt and the read
under the xtime lock.  The cast to a u64 then results in a large value
which causes the cpu to wait too long.  Fix this by casting next and
jiffies independently to u64 before subtracting them.

(Spotted by Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>)

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Martin Schwidefsky 2006-05-20 15:00:25 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0662b71322
commit 92f63cd000
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@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static inline void stop_hz_timer(void)
next = next_timer_interrupt();
do {
seq = read_seqbegin_irqsave(&xtime_lock, flags);
timer = (__u64)(next - jiffies) + jiffies_64;
timer = (__u64 next) - (__u64 jiffies) + jiffies_64;
} while (read_seqretry_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, seq, flags));
todval = -1ULL;
/* Be careful about overflows. */