alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers

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commit f4781e76f9 upstream.

Andrey reported a alartimer related RCU stall while fuzzing the kernel with
syzkaller.

The reason for this is an overflow in ktime_add() which brings the
resulting time into negative space and causes immediate expiry of the
timer. The following rearm with a small interval does not bring the timer
back into positive space due to the same issue.

This results in a permanent firing alarmtimer which hogs the CPU.

Use ktime_add_safe() instead which detects the overflow and clamps the
result to KTIME_SEC_MAX.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.802921648@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Thomas Gleixner 2017-05-30 23:15:34 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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