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Thomas Gleixner
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commit93ad0fc088upstream. The recent commit which prevented a division by 0 issue in the alarm timer code broke posix CPU timers as an unwanted side effect. The reason is that the common rearm code checks for timer->it_interval being 0 now. What went unnoticed is that the posix cpu timer setup does not initialize timer->it_interval as it stores the interval in CPU timer specific storage. The reason for the separate storage is historical as the posix CPU timers always had a 64bit nanoseconds representation internally while timer->it_interval is type ktime_t which used to be a modified timespec representation on 32bit machines. Instead of reverting the offending commit and fixing the alarmtimer issue in the alarmtimer code, store the interval in timer->it_interval at CPU timer setup time so the common code check works. This also repairs the existing inconistency of the posix CPU timer code which kept a single shot timer armed despite of the interval being 0. The separate storage can be removed in mainline, but that needs to be a separate commit as the current one has to be backported to stable kernels. Fixes:0e334db6bb("posix-timers: Fix division by zero bug") Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111133500.840117406@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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