From 885334956f3d9c69a6a5d6fad992431552ec84eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Dike Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:46:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] uml: deal with host time going backwards Protection against the host's time going backwards (eg, ntp activity on the host) by keeping track of the time at the last tick and if it's greater than the current time, keep time stopped until the host catches up. Cc: Nix Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c index bee98f466d660..dec5678fc17f7 100644 --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c @@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ static void deliver_alarm(void) unsigned long long this_tick = os_nsecs(); int one_tick = UM_NSEC_PER_SEC / UM_HZ; + /* Protection against the host's time going backwards */ + if ((last_tick != 0) && (this_tick < last_tick)) + this_tick = last_tick; + if (last_tick == 0) last_tick = this_tick - one_tick; @@ -148,6 +152,9 @@ static int after_sleep_interval(struct timespec *ts) start_usecs = usec; start_usecs -= skew / UM_NSEC_PER_USEC; + if (start_usecs < 0) + start_usecs = 0; + tv = ((struct timeval) { .tv_sec = start_usecs / UM_USEC_PER_SEC, .tv_usec = start_usecs % UM_USEC_PER_SEC }); interval = ((struct itimerval) { { 0, usec }, tv }); -- 2.39.5