[PATCH] timekeeping/vsyscall: Update vdso data unconditionally

From: Huacai Chen
Date: Wed Oct 23 2019 - 23:25:44 EST


In do_hres(), we currently use whether the return value of __arch_get_
hw_counter() is negative to indicate fallback, but MIPS returns 0 when
clock_mode is invalid.

It is sure that MIPS has a bug when clock_mode is invalid and should
return ULL_MAX as ARM64 does (Vincenzo has already submitted a patch).
But at the time we found another bug: currently update_vsyscall() and
update_vsyscall_tz() rely on __arch_use_vsyscall() to update the vdso
data, which causes __cvdso_clock_getres() and some other functions get
wrong results when clock_mode is invalid. So, in this patch we update
vdso data unconditionally.

Fixes: 44f57d788e7deecb50 ("timekeeping: Provide a generic update_vsyscall() implementation")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/vsyscall.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
index 4bc37ac..5ee0f77 100644
--- a/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
+++ b/kernel/time/vsyscall.c
@@ -110,8 +110,7 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk)
nsec = nsec + tk->wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec;
vdso_ts->sec += __iter_div_u64_rem(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC, &vdso_ts->nsec);

- if (__arch_use_vsyscall(vdata))
- update_vdso_data(vdata, tk);
+ update_vdso_data(vdata, tk);

__arch_update_vsyscall(vdata, tk);

@@ -124,10 +123,8 @@ void update_vsyscall_tz(void)
{
struct vdso_data *vdata = __arch_get_k_vdso_data();

- if (__arch_use_vsyscall(vdata)) {
- vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_minuteswest = sys_tz.tz_minuteswest;
- vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_dsttime = sys_tz.tz_dsttime;
- }
+ vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_minuteswest = sys_tz.tz_minuteswest;
+ vdata[CS_HRES_COARSE].tz_dsttime = sys_tz.tz_dsttime;

__arch_sync_vdso_data(vdata);
}
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2.7.0