Alarm timers utilize hrtimers for normal operation and only switch to the
RTC on suspend. In order to catch already expired timers early and without
going through a timer interrupt cycle, provide a new start function which
internally uses hrtimer_start_range_ns_user().
If hrtimer_start_range_ns_user() detects an already expired timer, it does
not queue it. In that case remove the timer from the alarm base as well.
Return the status queued or not back to the caller to handle the early
expiry.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408114952.332822525@kernel.org
In order to catch expiry times which are already in the past the
timer_arm() and timer_rearm() callbacks need to be able to report back to
the caller whether the timer has been queued or not.
Change the function signature and let all implementations return true for
now. While at it simplify posix_cpu_timer_rearm().
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408114952.130222296@kernel.org
In alarmtimer_suspend(), timerqueue_getnext() is called under
base->lock, but next->expires is read after the lock is released.
This is safe because suspend freezes all relevant task contexts,
but reading the node while holding the lock makes the code easier
to reason about and not worry about a theoretical UAF.
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407143627.19405-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
alarm_timer_forward() passes arguments to alarm_forward() in the wrong
order:
alarm_forward(alarm, timr->it_interval, now);
However, alarm_forward() is defined as:
u64 alarm_forward(struct alarm *alarm, ktime_t now, ktime_t interval);
and uses the second argument as the current time:
delta = ktime_sub(now, alarm->node.expires);
Passing the interval as "now" results in incorrect delta computation,
which can lead to missed expirations or incorrect overrun accounting.
This issue has been present since the introduction of
alarm_timer_forward().
Fix this by swapping the arguments.
Fixes: e7561f1633 ("alarmtimer: Implement forward callback")
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323061130.29991-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Correct several typos found in comments across various files in the
kernel/time directory.
No functional changes are introduced by these corrections.
Signed-off-by: Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
'clockid' can only be ALARM_REALTIME and ALARM_BOOTTIME. It's impossible to
return -1 and callers never check the return value.
Only alarm_clock_get_timespec(), alarm_clock_get_ktime(),
alarm_timer_create() and alarm_timer_nsleep() call clock2alarm(). These
callers use clockid_to_kclock() to get 'struct k_clock', which ensures
that clock2alarm() never returns -1.
Remove the impossible -1 return value, and add a warning to notify about any
future misuse of this function.
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250430032734.2079290-3-suhui@nfschina.com
Now that ignored posix timer signals are requeued and the timers are
rearmed on signal delivery the workaround to keep such timers alive and
self rearm them is not longer required.
Remove the relevant hacks and the not longer required return values from
the related functions. The alarm timer workarounds will be cleaned up in a
separate step.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.187239060@linutronix.de
Right now the state tracking is done by two struct members:
- it_active:
A boolean which tracks armed/disarmed state
- it_signal_seq:
A sequence counter which is used to invalidate settings
and prevent rearming
Replace it_active with it_status and keep properly track about the states
in one place.
This allows to reuse it_signal_seq to track reprogramming, disarm and
delete operations in order to drop signals which are related to the state
previous of those operations.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.670337048@linutronix.de
Rename posix_timer_event() to posix_timer_queue_signal() as this is what
the function is about.
Consolidate the requeue pending and deactivation updates into that function
as there is no point in doing this in all incarnations of posix timers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Some userspace applications use timerfd_create() to request wakeups after
a long period of time. For example, a backup application may request a
wakeup once per week. This is perfectly fine as long as the system does
not try to suspend. However, if the system tries to suspend and the
system's RTC does not support the required alarm timeout, the suspend
operation will fail with an error such as
rtc_cmos 00:01: Alarms can be up to one day in the future
PM: dpm_run_callback(): platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x4a returns -22
alarmtimer alarmtimer.4.auto: platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x4a returned -22 after 117 usecs
PM: Device alarmtimer.4.auto failed to suspend: error -22
This results in a refusal to suspend the system, causing substantial
battery drain on affected systems.
To fix the problem, use the maximum alarm time offset as reported by RTC
drivers to set the maximum alarm time. While this may result in early
wakeups from suspend, it is still much better than not suspending at all.
Standardize system behavior if the requested alarm timeout is larger than
the alarm timeout supported by the rtc chip. Currently, in this situation,
the RTC driver will do one of the following:
- It may return an error.
- It may limit the alarm timeout to the maximum supported by the rtc chip.
- It may mask the timeout by the maximum alarm timeout supported by the RTC
chip (i.e. a requested timeout of 1 day + 1 minute may result in a 1
minute timeout).
With this in place, if the RTC driver reports the maximum alarm timeout
supported by the RTC chip, the system will always limit the alarm timeout
to the maximum supported by the RTC chip.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915152238.1144706-3-linux@roeck-us.net
syzbot reported a RCU stall which is caused by setting up an alarmtimer
with a very small interval and ignoring the signal. The reproducer arms the
alarm timer with a relative expiry of 8ns and an interval of 9ns. Not a
problem per se, but that's an issue when the signal is ignored because then
the timer is immediately rearmed because there is no way to delay that
rearming to the signal delivery path. See posix_timer_fn() and commit
58229a1899 ("posix-timers: Prevent softirq starvation by small intervals
and SIG_IGN") for details.
The reproducer does not set SIG_IGN explicitely, but it sets up the timers
signal with SIGCONT. That has the same effect as explicitely setting
SIG_IGN for a signal as SIGCONT is ignored if there is no handler set and
the task is not ptraced.
The log clearly shows that:
[pid 5102] --- SIGCONT {si_signo=SIGCONT, si_code=SI_TIMER, si_timerid=0, si_overrun=316014, si_int=0, si_ptr=NULL} ---
It works because the tasks are traced and therefore the signal is queued so
the tracer can see it, which delays the restart of the timer to the signal
delivery path. But then the tracer is killed:
[pid 5087] kill(-5102, SIGKILL <unfinished ...>
...
./strace-static-x86_64: Process 5107 detached
and after it's gone the stall can be observed:
syzkaller login: [ 79.439102][ C0] hrtimer: interrupt took 68471 ns
[ 184.460538][ C1] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
...
[ 184.658237][ C1] rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
[ 184.664574][ C1] Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
[ 184.669821][ C0] NMI backtrace for cpu 0
[ 184.669831][ C0] CPU: 0 PID: 5108 Comm: syz-executor192 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6-next-20230203-syzkaller #0
...
[ 184.670036][ C0] Call Trace:
[ 184.670041][ C0] <IRQ>
[ 184.670045][ C0] alarmtimer_fired+0x327/0x670
posix_timer_fn() prevents that by checking whether the interval for
timers which have the signal ignored is smaller than a jiffie and
artifically delay it by shifting the next expiry out by a jiffie. That's
accurate vs. the overrun accounting, but slightly inaccurate
vs. timer_gettimer(2).
The comment in that function says what needs to be done and there was a fix
available for the regular userspace induced SIG_IGN mechanism, but that did
not work due to the implicit ignore for SIGCONT and similar signals. This
needs to be worked on, but for now the only available workaround is to do
exactly what posix_timer_fn() does:
Increase the interval of self-rearming timers, which have their signal
ignored, to at least a jiffie.
Interestingly this has been fixed before via commit ff86bf0c65
("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") already, but that fix got
lost in a later rework.
Reported-by: syzbot+b9564ba6e8e00694511b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f2c45807d3 ("alarmtimer: Switch over to generic set/get/rearm routine")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k00q1no2.ffs@tglx
