This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    clocksource: Fix abs() usage w/ 64bit values

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     clocksource-fix-abs-usage-w-64bit-values.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 67dfae0cd72fec5cd158b6e5fb1647b7dbe0834c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:05:20 -0700
Subject: clocksource: Fix abs() usage w/ 64bit values

From: John Stultz <[email protected]>

commit 67dfae0cd72fec5cd158b6e5fb1647b7dbe0834c upstream.

This patch fixes one cases where abs() was being used with 64-bit
nanosecond values, where the result may be capped at 32-bits.

This potentially could cause watchdog false negatives on 32-bit
systems, so this patch addresses the issue by using abs64().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigne
                        continue;
 
                /* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */
-               if ((abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD)) {
+               if (abs64(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD) {
                        pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog: Marking clocksource '%s' 
as unstable because the skew is too large:\n",
                                cs->name);
                        pr_warn("                      '%s' wd_now: %llx 
wd_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/time-fix-timekeeping_freqadjust-s-incorrect-use-of-abs-instead-of-abs64.patch
queue-4.2/clocksource-fix-abs-usage-w-64bit-values.patch
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