[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 084/104] clocksource: Fix abs() usage w/ 64bit values

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Oct 26 2015 - 09:51:58 EST


3.16.7-ckt19 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 67dfae0cd72fec5cd158b6e5fb1647b7dbe0834c upstream.

This patch fixes one cases where abs() was being used with 64-bit
nanosecond values, where the result may be capped at 32-bits.

This potentially could cause watchdog false negatives on 32-bit
systems, so this patch addresses the issue by using abs64().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442279124-7309-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/clocksource.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index ba3e502c955a..64ebaca04fc9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
continue;

/* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */
- if ((abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD)) {
+ if (abs64(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD) {
clocksource_unstable(cs, cs_nsec - wd_nsec);
continue;
}
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