Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absolute

[Richard Cochran]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:06:11PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> @@ -597,8 +602,16 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,
>  
>  	/* start the timer */
>  	timr->it.alarm.interval = timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_interval);
> -	alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer,
> -			timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value));
> +	exp = timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value);
> +	/* Convert (if necessary) to absolute time */
> +	if (flags != TIMER_ABSTIME) {
> +		ktime_t now;
> +
> +		now = alarm_bases[timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer.type].gettime();
> +		exp = ktime_add(now, exp);
> +	}
> +
> +	alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer, exp);

Nothing protects 'exp' from becoming invalid before queuing the alarm,
if the time base is reset on another cpu. Or would that be harmless
here?

>  	return 0;
>  }

Thanks,
Richard
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