[PATCH 4.4 133/137] timerfd: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Feb 23 2016 - 23:30:41 EST


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

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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit b62526ed11a1fe3861ab98d40b7fdab8981d788a upstream.

Helge reported that a relative timer can return a remaining time larger than
the programmed relative time on parisc and other architectures which have
CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES set. This happens because we add a jiffie to the resulting
expiry time to prevent short timeouts.

Use the new function hrtimer_expires_remaining_adjusted() to calculate the
remaining time. It takes that extra added time into account for relative
timers.

Reported-and-tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-m68k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160114164159.354500742@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/timerfd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/timerfd.c
+++ b/fs/timerfd.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static ktime_t timerfd_get_remaining(str
if (isalarm(ctx))
remaining = alarm_expires_remaining(&ctx->t.alarm);
else
- remaining = hrtimer_expires_remaining(&ctx->t.tmr);
+ remaining = hrtimer_expires_remaining_adjusted(&ctx->t.tmr);

return remaining.tv64 < 0 ? ktime_set(0, 0): remaining;
}