[PATCH 1/2] itimers: fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/itimer.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c
index b03451e..d802883 100644
--- a/kernel/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/itimer.c
@@ -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);
 
-- 
1.6.2.5

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