alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absolute

Sharvil noticed with the posix timer_settime interface, using the
CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM or CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM clockid, if the users
tried to specify a relative time timer, it would incorrectly be
treated as absolute regardless of the state of the flags argument.

This patch corrects this, properly checking the absolute/relative flag,
as well as adds further error checking that no invalid flag bits are set.

Reported-by: Sharvil Nanavati <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]> #3.0+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Author: johnstultz-work

kernel/time/alarmtimer.c

@@ -585,9 +585,14 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,
 				struct itimerspec *new_setting,
 				struct itimerspec *old_setting)
 {
+	ktime_t exp;
+
 	if (!rtcdev)
 		return -ENOTSUPP;
 
+	if (flags & ~TIMER_ABSTIME)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (old_setting)
 		alarm_timer_get(timr, old_setting);
 
@@ -597,8 +602,16 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,
 
 	/* start the timer */
 	timr->it.alarm.interval = timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_interval);
-	alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer,
-			timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value));
+	exp = timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value);
+	/* Convert (if necessary) to absolute time */
+	if (flags != TIMER_ABSTIME) {
+		ktime_t now;
+
+		now = alarm_bases[timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer.type].gettime();
+		exp = ktime_add(now, exp);
+	}
+
+	alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer, exp);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -730,6 +743,9 @@ static int alarm_timer_nsleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
 	if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev())
 		return -ENOTSUPP;
 
+	if (flags & ~TIMER_ABSTIME)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM))
 		return -EPERM;