[PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup

alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds.  The
value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the
itimer.  The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes
the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX.

Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted
to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion.  It's
not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the
timeval_to_jiffies code.

hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as
already expired.  This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a
timeout value > INT_MAX seconds.

For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds
value to avoid API breakage.  Instead of doing this in all implementations
of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function
in itimer.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c

@@ -1166,19 +1166,7 @@ put_tv32 (struct compat_timeval __user *o, struct timeval *i)
 asmlinkage unsigned long
 sys32_alarm (unsigned int seconds)
 {
-	struct itimerval it_new, it_old;
+	return alarm_setitimer(seconds);
-	unsigned int oldalarm;
-
-	it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
-	it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
-	it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
-	do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old);
-	oldalarm = it_old.it_value.tv_sec;
-	/* ehhh.. We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending.. */
-	/* And we'd better return too much than too little anyway */
-	if (it_old.it_value.tv_usec)
-		oldalarm++;
-	return oldalarm;
 }
 
 /* Translations due to time_t size differences.  Which affects all

arch/mips/kernel/sysirix.c

@@ -645,27 +645,7 @@ static inline void getitimer_real(struct itimerval *value)
 
 asmlinkage unsigned int irix_alarm(unsigned int seconds)
 {
-	struct itimerval it_new, it_old;
+	return alarm_setitimer(seconds);
-	unsigned int oldalarm;
-
-	if (!seconds) {
-		getitimer_real(&it_old);
-		del_timer(&current->real_timer);
-	} else {
-		it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
-		it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
-		it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
-		do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old);
-	}
-	oldalarm = it_old.it_value.tv_sec;
-	/*
-	 * ehhh.. We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending ...
-	 * And we'd better return too much than too little anyway
-	 */
-	if (it_old.it_value.tv_usec)
-		oldalarm++;
-
-	return oldalarm;
 }
 
 asmlinkage int irix_pause(void)

arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c

@@ -430,24 +430,12 @@ put_tv32(struct compat_timeval __user *o, struct timeval *i)
 	return err; 
 }
 
-extern int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *, struct itimerval *);
+extern unsigned int alarm_setitimer(unsigned int seconds);
 
 asmlinkage long
 sys32_alarm(unsigned int seconds)
 {
-	struct itimerval it_new, it_old;
+	return alarm_setitimer(seconds);
-	unsigned int oldalarm;
-
-	it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
-	it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
-	it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
-	do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old);
-	oldalarm = it_old.it_value.tv_sec;
-	/* ehhh.. We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending.. */
-	/* And we'd better return too much than too little anyway */
-	if (it_old.it_value.tv_usec)
-		oldalarm++;
-	return oldalarm;
 }
 
 /* Translations due to time_t size differences.  Which affects all

include/linux/time.h

@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ extern long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timeval *times);
 struct itimerval;
 extern int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value,
 			struct itimerval *ovalue);
+extern unsigned int alarm_setitimer(unsigned int seconds);
 extern int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value);
 extern void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *tv);
 

kernel/itimer.c

@@ -226,6 +226,43 @@ again:
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * alarm_setitimer - set alarm in seconds
+ *
+ * @seconds:	number of seconds until alarm
+ *		0 disables the alarm
+ *
+ * Returns the remaining time in seconds of a pending timer or 0 when
+ * the timer is not active.
+ *
+ * On 32 bit machines the seconds value is limited to (INT_MAX/2) to avoid
+ * negative timeval settings which would cause immediate expiry.
+ */
+unsigned int alarm_setitimer(unsigned int seconds)
+{
+	struct itimerval it_new, it_old;
+
+#if BITS_PER_LONG < 64
+	if (seconds > INT_MAX)
+		seconds = INT_MAX;
+#endif
+	it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
+	it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
+	it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
+
+	do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old);
+
+	/*
+	 * We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending ...  And we'd
+	 * better return too much than too little anyway
+	 */
+	if ((!it_old.it_value.tv_sec && it_old.it_value.tv_usec) ||
+	      it_old.it_value.tv_usec >= 500000)
+		it_old.it_value.tv_sec++;
+
+	return it_old.it_value.tv_sec;
+}
+
 asmlinkage long sys_setitimer(int which,
 			      struct itimerval __user *value,
 			      struct itimerval __user *ovalue)

kernel/timer.c

@@ -956,19 +956,7 @@ void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
  */
 asmlinkage unsigned long sys_alarm(unsigned int seconds)
 {
-	struct itimerval it_new, it_old;
+	return alarm_setitimer(seconds);
-	unsigned int oldalarm;
-
-	it_new.it_interval.tv_sec = it_new.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
-	it_new.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
-	it_new.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
-	do_setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &it_new, &it_old);
-	oldalarm = it_old.it_value.tv_sec;
-	/* ehhh.. We can't return 0 if we have an alarm pending.. */
-	/* And we'd better return too much than too little anyway */
-	if ((!oldalarm && it_old.it_value.tv_usec) || it_old.it_value.tv_usec >= 500000)
-		oldalarm++;
-	return oldalarm;
 }
 
 #endif