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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: edumazet@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, f6bvp@free.fr, thomas@osterried.de,
	thomas@x-berg.in-berlin.de, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 net 1/1] net: avoid overflow when rose /proc displays timer information.
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 17:07:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yuk9vq7t7VhmnOXu@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)

rose /proc code does not serialize timer accesses.

Initial report by Bernard F6BVP Pidoux exhibits overflow amounting
to 116 ticks on its HZ=250 system.

Full timer access serialization would imho be overkill as rose /proc
does not enforce consistency between displayed ROSE_STATE_XYZ and
timer values during changes of state.

The patch may also fix similar behavior in ax25 /proc, ax25 ioctl
and netrom /proc as they all exhibit the same timer serialization
policy. This point has not been reported though.

The sole remaining use of ax25_display_timer - ax25 rtt valuation -
may also perform marginally better but I have not analyzed it too
deeply.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Thomas DL9SAU Osterried <thomas@osterried.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d5e93cc7-a91f-13d3-49a1-b50c11f0f811@free.fr/
---
 net/ax25/ax25_timer.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Bernard, can you formally test and add your "Tested-by:" on this one ?

diff --git a/net/ax25/ax25_timer.c b/net/ax25/ax25_timer.c
index 85865ebfdfa2..9f7cb0a7c73f 100644
--- a/net/ax25/ax25_timer.c
+++ b/net/ax25/ax25_timer.c
@@ -108,10 +108,12 @@ int ax25_t1timer_running(ax25_cb *ax25)
 
 unsigned long ax25_display_timer(struct timer_list *timer)
 {
+	long delta = timer->expires - jiffies;
+
 	if (!timer_pending(timer))
 		return 0;
 
-	return timer->expires - jiffies;
+	return max(0L, delta);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ax25_display_timer);
-- 
2.37.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-08-02 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02 15:07 Francois Romieu [this message]
2022-08-02 16:57 ` [PATCH v1 net 1/1] net: avoid overflow when rose /proc displays timer information Bernard f6bvp
2022-08-06  2:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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