On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:47 AM Waldemar Kozaczuk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> When wall clock jumps backwards triggered for example by host clock
> change and propagated through kvmclock synchronization mechanism
> implemented by the commit
> https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/commit/e694d066d20d87897d4a9b6dc721c0926d0fdc74
> ,
> timerfd::read() may see 'now' timepoint before the 'expiration' upon
> wakeup event which is opposite to what the current implementation
> expects and leads to broken assert crash.
>
> This patch fixes the implementation of timerfd::read() by
> differentiating between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME
> and handling the case when clock is realtime (wall clock)
> and 'now' is before the 'expiration'. In which case we
> simply re-arm to wake up at the same 'expiration' timepoint
> which is still ahead.
>
> Partially addresses #1076. Please note that we need to adjust
> tst-timerfd to account for clock jumping forwards or backwards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waldemar Kozaczuk <[email protected]>
> ---
>  libc/timerfd.cc | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libc/timerfd.cc b/libc/timerfd.cc
> index 5d382fa3..70500dca 100644
> --- a/libc/timerfd.cc
> +++ b/libc/timerfd.cc
> @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ int timerfd::read(uio *data, int flags)
>      }
>
>      WITH_LOCK(_mutex) {
> +again:
>          while (!_expiration || _wakeup_due) {
>              if (f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
>                  return EAGAIN;
> @@ -193,14 +194,21 @@ int timerfd::read(uio *data, int flags)
>              _expiration = 0;
>          } else {
>              auto now = time_now();
> -            // set next wakeup for the next multiple of interval from
> -            // _expiration which is after "now".
> -            assert (now >= _expiration);
> -            u64 count = (now - _expiration) / _interval;
> -            _expiration = _expiration + (count+1) * _interval;
> -            _wakeup_due = _expiration;
> -            _wakeup_change_cond.wake_one();
> -            ret = 1 + count;
> +            if (_clockid == CLOCK_MONOTONIC || now >= _expiration) {
> +                // set next wakeup for the next multiple of interval from
> +                // _expiration which is after "now".
> +                assert (now >= _expiration);
> +                u64 count = (now - _expiration) / _interval;
> +                _expiration = _expiration + (count+1) * _interval;
> +                _wakeup_due = _expiration;
> +                _wakeup_change_cond.wake_one();
> +                ret = 1 + count;
> +            } else {
> +                // Clock is REALTIME and now < _expiration (clock may
> have jumped backwards)
> +                _wakeup_due = _expiration;
>

I wonder if this shouldn't be  _expiration + interval -
_expiration was the time of the *previous* expiration, which already
happened. The next expiration is supposed to happen at _expiration +
interval.
For example, if the interval is 1 second, and we had a wakeup at wall clock
7.0, and suddenly wallclock went back to 6.999, the next wakeup should
still be at 8.0 - not at 7.0 again.


+                _wakeup_change_cond.wake_one();
> +                goto again;
>
+            }
>          }
>          copy_to_uio((const char *)&ret, sizeof(ret), data);
>          return 0;
> --
> 2.20.1
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