Fix potential garbage reads in the vDSO gettimeofday code,

by Thomas Weißschuh.
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2026-05-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix potential garbage reads in the vDSO gettimeofday code
   (Thomas Weißschuh)

* tag 'timers-urgent-2026-05-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  vdso/gettimeofday: Reload sequence counter after switch to time page in do_aux()
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Linus Torvalds 2026-05-17 11:07:09 -07:00
commit 46cd5b22e5

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@ -248,11 +248,10 @@ bool do_aux(const struct vdso_time_data *vd, clockid_t clock, struct __kernel_ti
vc = &vd->aux_clock_data[idx];
do {
if (vdso_read_begin_timens(vc, &seq)) {
while (vdso_read_begin_timens(vc, &seq)) {
/* Re-read from the real time data page, reload seq by looping */
vd = __arch_get_vdso_u_timens_data(vd);
vc = &vd->aux_clock_data[idx];
/* Re-read from the real time data page */
continue;
}
/* Auxclock disabled? */