The patch titled
gtod: fix timeout overflow
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
gtod-fix-timeout-overflow.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: gtod: fix timeout overflow
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Prevent timeout overflow if timer ticks are behind jiffies (due to high
softirq load or due to dyntick), by limiting the valid timeout range to
MAX_LONG/2.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/jiffies.h | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/jiffies.h~gtod-fix-timeout-overflow include/linux/jiffies.h
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h~gtod-fix-timeout-overflow
+++ a/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
*
* And some not so obvious.
*
- * Note that we don't want to return MAX_LONG, because
+ * Note that we don't want to return LONG_MAX, because
* for various timeout reasons we often end up having
* to wait "jiffies+1" in order to guarantee that we wait
* at _least_ "jiffies" - so "jiffies+1" had better still
* be positive.
*/
-#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((~0UL >> 1)-1)
+#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((LONG_MAX >> 1)-1)
/*
* We want to do realistic conversions of time so we need to use the same
_
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gtod-uninline-jiffiesh.patch
gtod-fix-multiple-conversion-bugs-in-msecs_to_jiffies.patch
gtod-fix-timeout-overflow.patch
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