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mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:29:37 +0000 (11:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:55:52 +0000 (15:55 +0200)
commit2c204cf594df3b9468368dc9d0b24d482d93cda7
tree6d1d9abd147acea610ad2a891b3aa43fca49d76a
parent8576e72ac5d651c3ef41afc54b657bed7e9a69d7
mac80211-hwsim: fix late beacon hrtimer handling

[ Upstream commit 313bbd1990b6ddfdaa7da098d0c56b098a833572 ]

Thomas explained in https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mtoeb4hb.ffs@tglx
that our handling of the hrtimer here is wrong: If the timer fires
late (e.g. due to vCPU scheduling, as reported by Dmitry/syzbot)
then it tries to actually rearm the timer at the next deadline,
which might be in the past already:

 1          2          3          N          N+1
 |          |          |   ...    |          |

 ^ intended to fire here (1)
            ^ next deadline here (2)
                                      ^ actually fired here

The next time it fires, it's later, but will still try to schedule
for the next deadline (now 3), etc. until it catches up with N,
but that might take a long time, causing stalls etc.

Now, all of this is simulation, so we just have to fix it, but
note that the behaviour is wrong even per spec, since there's no
value then in sending all those beacons unaligned - they should be
aligned to the TBTT (1, 2, 3, ... in the picture), and if we're a
bit (or a lot) late, then just resume at that point.

Therefore, change the code to use hrtimer_forward_now() which will
ensure that the next firing of the timer would be at N+1 (in the
picture), i.e. the next interval point after the current time.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+0e964fad69a9c462bc1e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 01e59e467ecf ("mac80211_hwsim: hrtimer beacon")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210915112936.544f383472eb.I3f9712009027aa09244b65399bf18bf482a8c4f1@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c