[PATCH 1/2] ARM: VDSO: fix coarse clock monotonicity regression

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Fri Aug 07 2015 - 22:05:23 EST


Since 906c55579a63 ("timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the
real timekeeper last") it has become possible on ARM to:

- Obtain a CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE or CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE timestamp
via syscall.
- Subsequently obtain a timestamp for the same clock ID via VDSO which
predates the first timestamp (by one jiffy).

This is because ARM's update_vsyscall is deriving the coarse time
using the __current_kernel_time interface, when it should really be
using the timekeeper object provided to it by the timekeeping core.
It happened to work before only because __current_kernel_time would
access the same timekeeper object which had been passed to
update_vsyscall. This is no longer the case.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
index efe17dd9b921..c8b243c1aef8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ static bool tk_is_cntvct(const struct timekeeper *tk)
*/
void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
{
- struct timespec xtime_coarse;
struct timespec64 *wtm = &tk->wall_to_monotonic;

if (!cntvct_ok) {
@@ -308,10 +307,10 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)

vdso_write_begin(vdso_data);

- xtime_coarse = __current_kernel_time();
vdso_data->tk_is_cntvct = tk_is_cntvct(tk);
- vdso_data->xtime_coarse_sec = xtime_coarse.tv_sec;
- vdso_data->xtime_coarse_nsec = xtime_coarse.tv_nsec;
+ vdso_data->xtime_coarse_sec = tk->xtime_sec;
+ vdso_data->xtime_coarse_nsec = tk->tkr_mono.xtime_nsec >>
+ tk->tkr_mono.shift;
vdso_data->wtm_clock_sec = wtm->tv_sec;
vdso_data->wtm_clock_nsec = wtm->tv_nsec;

--
2.1.0

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