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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
chewitt · Jun 6, 2008 · 06e1e4f · 06e1e4f
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diff --git 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 });