[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 768e06ae357ecf561d86789b173dff9f7cc99ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Larocque <rlarocque at google.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:31:04 -0700
Subject: alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers

commit 265b81d23a46c39df0a735a3af4238954b41a4c2 upstream.

Avoids sending a signal to alarm timers created with sigev_notify set to
SIGEV_NONE by checking for that special case in the timeout callback.

The regular posix timers avoid sending signals to SIGEV_NONE timers by
not scheduling any callbacks for them in the first place.  Although it
would be possible to do something similar for alarm timers, it's simpler
to handle this as a special case in the timeout.

Prior to this patch, the alarm timer would ignore the sigev_notify value
and try to deliver signals to the process anyway.  Even worse, the
sanity check for the value of sigev_signo is skipped when SIGEV_NONE was
specified, so the signal number could be bogus.  If sigev_signo was an
unitialized value (as it often would be if SIGEV_NONE is used), then
it's hard to predict which signal will be sent.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit at redhat.com>
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque <rlarocque at google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 6745174..f7bdb14 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -466,8 +466,10 @@ static enum alarmtimer_restart alarm_handle_timer(struct alarm *alarm,
 {
 	struct k_itimer *ptr = container_of(alarm, struct k_itimer,
 						it.alarm.alarmtimer);
-	if (posix_timer_event(ptr, 0) != 0)
-		ptr->it_overrun++;
+	if ((ptr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != SIGEV_NONE) {
+		if (posix_timer_event(ptr, 0) != 0)
+			ptr->it_overrun++;
+	}

 	/* Re-add periodic timers */
 	if (ptr->it.alarm.interval.tv64) {
--
1.9.1