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authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2012-03-14 19:38:15 -0400
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2012-03-15 21:17:54 -0400
commitf695cf94837de53864180400cbac42cfa370426f (patch)
tree9bb91a9b8c5a1291a083a37e790da00d477b18f8 /kernel
parenta939e817aa7e199d2fff05a67cb745be32dd5c2d (diff)
time: Fix change_clocksource locking
change_clocksource() fails to grab locks or call timekeeping_update(), which leaves a race window for time inconsistencies. This adds proper locking and a call to timekeeping_update() to fix this. CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 403c2a092830..b53da5ecbea2 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -448,9 +448,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(timekeeping_inject_offset);
448static int change_clocksource(void *data) 448static int change_clocksource(void *data)
449{ 449{
450 struct clocksource *new, *old; 450 struct clocksource *new, *old;
451 unsigned long flags;
451 452
452 new = (struct clocksource *) data; 453 new = (struct clocksource *) data;
453 454
455 write_seqlock_irqsave(&timekeeper.lock, flags);
456
454 timekeeping_forward_now(); 457 timekeeping_forward_now();
455 if (!new->enable || new->enable(new) == 0) { 458 if (!new->enable || new->enable(new) == 0) {
456 old = timekeeper.clock; 459 old = timekeeper.clock;
@@ -458,6 +461,10 @@ static int change_clocksource(void *data)
458 if (old->disable) 461 if (old->disable)
459 old->disable(old); 462 old->disable(old);
460 } 463 }
464 timekeeping_update(true);
465
466 write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&timekeeper.lock, flags);
467
461 return 0; 468 return 0;
462} 469}
463 470