Le vendredi 10 février 2012 à 23:54 -0600, Josh Hunt a écrit : > We have hit an issue where our 32-bit applications using poll() and > passing in a value of -1 for the timeout value return after ~49 days > (2^32 msec), instead of waiting indefinitely. I've instrumented the > kernel and found we are hitting the case where poll() believes we've > passed in a positive number and thus creates a timespec, etc. I've > implemented compat_sys_poll() to sign-extend the timeout value and > resolve the issue. > > There was an almost identical patch submitted last year, but for > whatever reason did not make it in: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/18/19 Probably because Thomas Meyer didnt answer to patch reviewers, and not enough people cared. By the way, an inline patch is better, as stated in Documentation/SubmittingPatches Anyway, its time to fix this bug... Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
