From: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 406dd42bd1ba0c01babf9cde169bb319e52f6147 ]
When an itimer deactivates a previously armed expiration, it simply doesn't do anything. As a result the process wide cputime counter keeps running and the tick dependency stays set until it reaches the old ghost expiration value.
This can be reproduced with the following snippet:
void trigger_process_counter(void) { struct itimerval n = {};
n.it_value.tv_sec = 100; setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &n, NULL); n.it_value.tv_sec = 0; setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &n, NULL); }
Fix this with resetting the relevant base expiration. This is similar to disarming a timer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210726125513.271824-4-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index bfaa44a80c03..d9feac7aad52 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1230,8 +1230,6 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx, } }
- if (!*newval) - return; *newval += now; }