clockevents: Don't allow dummy broadcast timers

Currently tick_check_broadcast_device doesn't reject clock_event_devices
with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY, and may select them in preference to real
hardware if they have a higher rating value. In this situation, the
dummy timer is responsible for broadcasting to itself, and the core
clockevents code may attempt to call non-existent callbacks for
programming the dummy, eventually leading to a panic.

This patch makes tick_check_broadcast_device always reject dummy timers,
preventing this problem.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 2fb8cb88df8d0296e655f320bc7d5cbce1a858c8..7f32fe0e52cd46489c8d90e4b85f9d74204aab16 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static void tick_broadcast_start_periodic(struct clock_event_device *bc)
  */
 int tick_check_broadcast_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 {
-       if ((tick_broadcast_device.evtdev &&
+       if ((dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY) ||
+           (tick_broadcast_device.evtdev &&
             tick_broadcast_device.evtdev->rating >= dev->rating) ||
             (dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP))
                return 0;