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Commit 09edea4f authored by Nathan Lynch's avatar Nathan Lynch Committed by Russell King
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ARM: 8410/1: VDSO: fix coarse clock monotonicity regression

Since 906c5557 ("timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the
real timekeeper last") it has become possible on ARM to:

- Obtain a CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE or CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE timestamp
  via syscall.
- Subsequently obtain a timestamp for the same clock ID via VDSO which
  predates the first timestamp (by one jiffy).

This is because ARM's update_vsyscall is deriving the coarse time
using the __current_kernel_time interface, when it should really be
using the timekeeper object provided to it by the timekeeping core.
It happened to work before only because __current_kernel_time would
access the same timekeeper object which had been passed to
update_vsyscall.  This is no longer the case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 906c5557

 ("timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent e83dd377
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