The patch titled
fs: sys_poll with timeout -1 bug fix
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-sys_poll-with-timeout-1-bug-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: fs: sys_poll with timeout -1 bug fix
From: Frode Isaksen <frode.isaksen@xxxxxxxxx>
If you do a poll() call with timeout -1, the wait will be a big number
(depending on HZ) instead of infinite wait, since -1 is passed to the
msecs_to_jiffies function.
Signed-off-by: Frode Isaksen <frode.isaksen@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/select.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/select.c~fs-sys_poll-with-timeout-1-bug-fix fs/select.c
--- a/fs/select.c~fs-sys_poll-with-timeout-1-bug-fix
+++ a/fs/select.c
@@ -746,9 +746,9 @@ out_fds:
asmlinkage long sys_poll(struct pollfd __user *ufds, unsigned int nfds,
long timeout_msecs)
{
- s64 timeout_jiffies = 0;
+ s64 timeout_jiffies;
- if (timeout_msecs) {
+ if (timeout_msecs > 0) {
#if HZ > 1000
/* We can only overflow if HZ > 1000 */
if (timeout_msecs / 1000 > (s64)0x7fffffffffffffffULL / (s64)HZ)
@@ -756,6 +756,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_poll(struct pollfd _
else
#endif
timeout_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(timeout_msecs);
+ } else {
+ /* Infinite (< 0) or no (0) timeout */
+ timeout_jiffies = timeout_msecs;
}
return do_sys_poll(ufds, nfds, &timeout_jiffies);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from frode.isaksen@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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