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itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields 

incr_error and error fields of struct cpu_itimer are used when calculating
next timer tick in check_cpu_itimers() and should not be modified without
tsk->sighand->siglock taken.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253802903-979-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> 
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Stanislaw Gruszka 2009-11-17 14:14:12 -08:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 0696b711e4
commit 8747d793fc
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ static void set_cpu_itimer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_id,
{
cputime_t cval, nval, cinterval, ninterval;
s64 ns_ninterval, ns_nval;
u32 error, incr_error;
struct cpu_itimer *it = &tsk->signal->it[clock_id];
nval = timeval_to_cputime(&value->it_value);
@ -153,8 +154,8 @@ static void set_cpu_itimer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_id,
ninterval = timeval_to_cputime(&value->it_interval);
ns_ninterval = timeval_to_ns(&value->it_interval);
it->incr_error = cputime_sub_ns(ninterval, ns_ninterval);
it->error = cputime_sub_ns(nval, ns_nval);
error = cputime_sub_ns(nval, ns_nval);
incr_error = cputime_sub_ns(ninterval, ns_ninterval);
spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
@ -168,6 +169,8 @@ static void set_cpu_itimer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_id,
}
it->expires = nval;
it->incr = ninterval;
it->error = error;
it->incr_error = incr_error;
trace_itimer_state(clock_id == CPUCLOCK_VIRT ?
ITIMER_VIRTUAL : ITIMER_PROF, value, nval);