Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] timer: a9gtimer: remove loop to auto-increment comparator

[P J P]

+-- On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, P J P wrote --+
| +if (gtb->control & R_CONTROL_AUTO_INCREMENT && gtb->inc) {
| +inc = update.new - gtb->compare;
| +inc = MAX(QEMU_ALIGN_DOWN(inc, gtb->inc), gtb->inc);
| +DB_PRINT("Auto incrementing timer compare by %"
| +PRId64 "\n", inc);
| +gtb->compare += inc;

  Please consider [PATCH v6]. I should've slept over this, instead of sending 
it at 02:00 hrs. at night.

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] timer: a9gtimer: remove loop to auto-increment comparator

[P J P]

From: Prasad J Pandit 

ARM A9MP processor has a peripheral timer with an auto-increment
register, which holds an increment step value. A user could set
this value to zero. When auto-increment control bit is enabled,
it leads to an infinite loop in 'a9_gtimer_update' while
updating comparator value. Remove this loop incrementing the
comparator value.

Reported-by: Li Qiang 
Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit 
---
 hw/timer/a9gtimer.c | 15 ---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Update per
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02891.html

diff --git a/hw/timer/a9gtimer.c b/hw/timer/a9gtimer.c
index 772f85f..012f10c 100644
--- a/hw/timer/a9gtimer.c
+++ b/hw/timer/a9gtimer.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static void a9_gtimer_update(A9GTimerState *s, bool sync)
 
 A9GTimerUpdate update = a9_gtimer_get_update(s);
 int i;
+uint64_t inc;
 int64_t next_cdiff = 0;
 
 for (i = 0; i < s->num_cpu; ++i) {
@@ -82,15 +83,15 @@ static void a9_gtimer_update(A9GTimerState *s, bool sync)
 if ((s->control & R_CONTROL_TIMER_ENABLE) &&
 (gtb->control & R_CONTROL_COMP_ENABLE)) {
 /* R2p0+, where the compare function is >= */
-while (gtb->compare < update.new) {
+if (gtb->compare < update.new) {
 DB_PRINT("Compare event happened for CPU %d\n", i);
 gtb->status = 1;
-if (gtb->control & R_CONTROL_AUTO_INCREMENT) {
-DB_PRINT("Auto incrementing timer compare by %" PRId32 
"\n",
- gtb->inc);
-gtb->compare += gtb->inc;
-} else {
-break;
+if (gtb->control & R_CONTROL_AUTO_INCREMENT && gtb->inc) {
+inc = update.new - gtb->compare;
+inc = MAX(QEMU_ALIGN_DOWN(inc, gtb->inc), gtb->inc);
+DB_PRINT("Auto incrementing timer compare by %"
+PRId64 "\n", inc);
+gtb->compare += inc;
 }
 }
 cdiff = (int64_t)gtb->compare - (int64_t)update.new + 1;
-- 
2.5.5