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Subject[PATCH] timers: Fix overflow in get_next_timer_interrupt
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For e.g. HZ=100, timer being 430 jiffies in the future, and 32 bit
unsigned int, there is an overflow on unsigned int right-hand side
of the expression which results with wrong values being returned.

Problem was observed on tickless core and with following applied:

sched/nohz: add debugfs control over sched_tick_max_deferment
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/16/499

Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com>
---
kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 71ce3f4..8f5d1bf 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ u64 get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long basej, u64 basem)
base->is_idle = false;
} else {
if (!is_max_delta)
- expires = basem + (nextevt - basej) * TICK_NSEC;
+ expires = basem + (u64)(nextevt - basej) * TICK_NSEC;
/*
* If we expect to sleep more than a tick, mark the base idle:
*/
--
2.1.4
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