mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling
stable inclusion from stable-5.10.71 commit 2c204cf594df3b9468368dc9d0b24d482d93cda7 bugzilla: 182981 https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I4I3KD Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=2c204cf594df3b9468368dc9d0b24d482d93cda7 -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit 313bbd19 ] Thomas explained in https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mtoeb4hb.ffs@tglx that our handling of the hrtimer here is wrong: If the timer fires late (e.g. due to vCPU scheduling, as reported by Dmitry/syzbot) then it tries to actually rearm the timer at the next deadline, which might be in the past already: 1 2 3 N N+1 | | | ... | | ^ intended to fire here (1) ^ next deadline here (2) ^ actually fired here The next time it fires, it's later, but will still try to schedule for the next deadline (now 3), etc. until it catches up with N, but that might take a long time, causing stalls etc. Now, all of this is simulation, so we just have to fix it, but note that the behaviour is wrong even per spec, since there's no value then in sending all those beacons unaligned - they should be aligned to the TBTT (1, 2, 3, ... in the picture), and if we're a bit (or a lot) late, then just resume at that point. Therefore, change the code to use hrtimer_forward_now() which will ensure that the next firing of the timer would be at N+1 (in the picture), i.e. the next interval point after the current time. Suggested-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by:
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