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Commit 13ccaef7 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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posix-cpu-timers: Force next expiration recalc after itimer reset



[ Upstream commit 406dd42b ]

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: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210726125513.271824-4-frederic@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 8a6c5eec
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