[PATCH] fix vsyscall settimeofday

I've only seen this on x86_64.

The vsyscall state only gets updated when a timer interrupts comes in.  So
if the time is set long before the next timer, there will be a period when
a gettimeofday() won't reflect the correct time.

I added an explicit update_vsyscall() during the settimeofday(), that way
the vsyscall state doesn't get stale.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index ee0a2da4aab3..797cccb86431 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -862,6 +862,8 @@ int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv)
         clock->error = 0;
         ntp_clear();
 
+        update_vsyscall(&xtime, clock);
+
         write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
 
         /* signal hrtimers about time change */