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lib/vdso: use CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE for time()

Message ID 20200611155804.65204-1-salyzyn@android.com
State New
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Series lib/vdso: use CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE for time() | expand

Commit Message

Mark Salyzyn June 11, 2020, 3:57 p.m. UTC 
From: Chiawei Wang <chiaweiwang@google.com>

CLOCK_REALTIME in vdso data won't be updated if
__arch_use_vsyscall() returns false. It will let time()
return an incorrect time value. Since time() is designed
to return the seconds since the Epoch, using
CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE can still fulfill the request and
never fails.

Signed-off-by: Chiawei Wang <chiaweiwang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
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 lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
index a2909af4b924..7ea22096cbe2 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@  __cvdso_time_data(const struct vdso_data *vd, __kernel_old_time_t *time)
 	    vd->clock_mode == VDSO_CLOCKMODE_TIMENS)
 		vd = __arch_get_timens_vdso_data();
 
-	t = READ_ONCE(vd[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_REALTIME].sec);
+	t = READ_ONCE(vd[CS_HRES_COARSE].basetime[CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE].sec);
 
 	if (time)
 		*time = t;