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Thomas Gleixner dc0f37b780 timekeeping: Force upper bound for setting CLOCK_REALTIME 
[ Upstream commit 7a8e61f847 ]

Several people reported testing failures after setting CLOCK_REALTIME close
to the limits of the kernel internal representation in nanoseconds,
i.e. year 2262.

The failures are exposed in subsequent operations, i.e. when arming timers
or when the advancing CLOCK_MONOTONIC makes the calculation of
CLOCK_REALTIME overflow into negative space.

Now people start to paper over the underlying problem by clamping
calculations to the valid range, but that's just wrong because such
workarounds will prevent detection of real issues as well.

It is reasonable to force an upper bound for the various methods of setting
CLOCK_REALTIME. Year 2262 is the absolute upper bound. Assume a maximum
uptime of 30 years which is plenty enough even for esoteric embedded
systems. That results in an upper bound of year 2232 for setting the time.

Once that limit is reached in reality this limit is only a small part of
the problem space. But until then this stops people from trying to paper
over the problem at the wrong places.

Reported-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Hongbo Yao <yaohongbo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1903231125480.2157@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-05-31 06:46:29 -07:00
arch sh: sh7786: Add explicit I/O cast to sh7786_mm_sel() 2019-05-31 06:46:28 -07:00
block block: sed-opal: fix IOC_OPAL_ENABLE_DISABLE_MBR 2019-05-31 06:46:24 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: ccm - fix incompatibility between "ccm" and "ccm_base" 2019-05-22 07:37:43 +02:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Add workaround for Cortex-A76 erratum #1463225 2019-05-31 06:46:03 -07:00
drivers thunderbolt: Fix to check the return value of kmemdup 2019-05-31 06:46:29 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs chardev: add additional check for minor range overlap 2019-05-31 06:46:27 -07:00
include timekeeping: Force upper bound for setting CLOCK_REALTIME 2019-05-31 06:46:29 -07:00
init init: initialize jump labels before command line option parsing 2019-05-16 19:41:23 +02:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel timekeeping: Force upper bound for setting CLOCK_REALTIME 2019-05-31 06:46:29 -07:00
lib kobject: Don't trigger kobject_uevent(KOBJ_REMOVE) twice. 2019-05-31 06:46:28 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm hugetlb: use same fault hash key for shared and private mappings 2019-05-22 07:37:40 +02:00
net mac80211/cfg80211: update bss channel on channel switch 2019-05-31 06:46:14 -07:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-02-15 08:10:11 +01:00
scripts fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock 2019-05-08 07:21:51 +02:00
security apparmorfs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal 2019-05-25 18:23:42 +02:00
sound ASoC: fsl_utils: fix a leaked reference by adding missing of_node_put 2019-05-31 06:46:28 -07:00
tools selftests/bpf: ksym_search won't check symbols exists 2019-05-31 06:46:25 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Ensure vcpu target is unset on reset failure 2019-05-25 18:23:44 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS platform/x86: Add Intel AtomISP2 dummy / power-management driver 2019-04-20 09:16:02 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.46 2019-05-25 18:23:48 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.