itimers: Fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields
authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:14:12 +0000 (14:14 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:32:12 +0000 (16:32 +0100)
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@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253802903-979-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/itimer.c

index b03451e..d802883 100644 (file)
@@ -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);