[PATCH] time: Cast tv_nsec to u64 for proper shifting in update_vsyscall()

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Fri May 09 2014 - 11:12:20 EST


With tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec being a 32-bit value on 32-bit
systems, (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift) in update_vsyscall()
may lose upper bits or, worse, add them since compiler will do this:
(u64)(tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift)
instead of
((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec << tk->shift)

So if, for example, tv_nsec is 0x800000 and shift is 8 we will end up
with 0xffffffff80000000 instead of 0x80000000. And then we are stuck in
the subsequent 'while' loop.

We need explicit cast.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
index f9c6e56..9531fbb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_gtod.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
vdata->monotonic_time_sec = tk->xtime_sec
+ tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec;
vdata->monotonic_time_snsec = tk->xtime_nsec
- + (tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec
+ + ((u64)tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec
<< tk->shift);
while (vdata->monotonic_time_snsec >=
(((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC) << tk->shift)) {
--
1.7.1

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