commit 1e817fb62cd185a2232ad4302579491805609489
author Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Mon Nov 19 10:26:16 2012 -0800
committer John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Tue Jan 15 18:16:02 2013 -0800
tree d4155fb65a9fb32cd9236405a8b7534f39c293b9
parent 9c3f9e281697d02889c3b08922f3b30be75f56c2

time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls

The pstore RAM backend can get called during resume, and must be defensive
against a suspended time source. Expose getnstimeofday logic that returns
an error instead of a WARN. This can be detected and the timestamp can
be zeroed out.

Reported-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

fs/pstore/ram.c

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 1a4f6da..dacfe78 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -168,12 +168,16 @@
 static size_t ramoops_write_kmsg_hdr(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz)
 {
 	char *hdr;
-	struct timeval timestamp;
+	struct timespec timestamp;
 	size_t len;
 
-	do_gettimeofday(&timestamp);
+	/* Report zeroed timestamp if called before timekeeping has resumed. */
+	if (__getnstimeofday(&timestamp)) {
+		timestamp.tv_sec = 0;
+		timestamp.tv_nsec = 0;
+	}
 	hdr = kasprintf(GFP_ATOMIC, RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR "%lu.%lu\n",
-		(long)timestamp.tv_sec, (long)timestamp.tv_usec);
+		(long)timestamp.tv_sec, (long)(timestamp.tv_nsec / 1000));
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!hdr);
 	len = hdr ? strlen(hdr) : 0;
 	persistent_ram_write(prz, hdr, len);

include/linux/time.h

diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index 4d358e9..0015aea 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
 			struct itimerval *ovalue);
 extern unsigned int alarm_setitimer(unsigned int seconds);
 extern int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value);
+extern int __getnstimeofday(struct timespec *tv);
 extern void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *tv);
 extern void getrawmonotonic(struct timespec *ts);
 extern void getnstime_raw_and_real(struct timespec *ts_raw,

kernel/time/timekeeping.c

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 4c7de02..dfc7f87 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -214,19 +214,18 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * getnstimeofday - Returns the time of day in a timespec
+ * __getnstimeofday - Returns the time of day in a timespec.
  * @ts:		pointer to the timespec to be set
  *
- * Returns the time of day in a timespec.
+ * Updates the time of day in the timespec.
+ * Returns 0 on success, or -ve when suspended (timespec will be undefined).
  */
-void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *ts)
+int __getnstimeofday(struct timespec *ts)
 {
 	struct timekeeper *tk = &timekeeper;
 	unsigned long seq;
 	s64 nsecs = 0;
 
-	WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended);
-
 	do {
 		seq = read_seqbegin(&tk->lock);
 
@@ -237,6 +236,26 @@
 
 	ts->tv_nsec = 0;
 	timespec_add_ns(ts, nsecs);
+
+	/*
+	 * Do not bail out early, in case there were callers still using
+	 * the value, even in the face of the WARN_ON.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(timekeeping_suspended))
+		return -EAGAIN;
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__getnstimeofday);
+
+/**
+ * getnstimeofday - Returns the time of day in a timespec.
+ * @ts:		pointer to the timespec to be set
+ *
+ * Returns the time of day in a timespec (WARN if suspended).
+ */
+void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *ts)
+{
+	WARN_ON(__getnstimeofday(ts));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(getnstimeofday);