timer: Prevent base->clk from moving backward
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Fri, 3 Jul 2020 01:06:57 +0000 (03:06 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:34:22 +0000 (09:34 +0200)
commit104c1b9abc106f2eabad186e3f5ad49927cea2a9
tree9587159ab8146d239e1693d0fcc4ec0399ce0a02
parent80daa8404491a8eaa518a7e2cd8f63812ce3bbcb
timer: Prevent base->clk from moving backward

commit 30c66fc30ee7a98c4f3adf5fb7e213b61884474f upstream.

When a timer is enqueued with a negative delta (ie: expiry is below
base->clk), it gets added to the wheel as expiring now (base->clk).

Yet the value that gets stored in base->next_expiry, while calling
trigger_dyntick_cpu(), is the initial timer->expires value. The
resulting state becomes:

base->next_expiry < base->clk

On the next timer enqueue, forward_timer_base() may accidentally
rewind base->clk. As a possible outcome, timers may expire way too
early, the worst case being that the highest wheel levels get spuriously
processed again.

To prevent from that, make sure that base->next_expiry doesn't get below
base->clk.

Fixes: a683f390b93f ("timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200703010657.2302-1-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/time/timer.c