When a timer is enqueued we try to forward the timer base clock. This
mechanism has two issues:
1) Forwarding a remote base unlocked
The forwarding function is called from get_target_base() with the current
timer base lock held. But if the new target base is a different base than
the current base (can happen with NOHZ, sigh!) then the forwarding is done
on an unlocked base. This can lead to corruption of base->clk.
Solution is simple: Invoke the forwarding after the target base is locked.
2) Possible corruption due to jiffies advancing
This is similar to the issue in get_net_timer_interrupt() which was fixed
in the previous patch. jiffies can advance between check and assignement
and therefore advancing base->clk beyond the next expiry value.
So we need to read jiffies into a local variable once and do the checks and
assignment with the local copy.
Fixes: a683f390b93f("timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible")
Reported-by: Ashton Holmes <scoopta@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michal Necasek <michal.necasek@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: knut.osmundsen@oracle.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161022110552.253640125@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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