The patch titled proc: fix reported unit for RLIMIT_CPU has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-fix-reported-unit-for-rlimit_cpu.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: proc: fix reported unit for RLIMIT_CPU From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> /proc/$pid/limits should show RLIMIT_CPU as seconds, which is the unit used in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: unsigned long psecs = cputime_to_secs(ptime); ... if (psecs >= sig->rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_max) { ... __group_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk); Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~proc-fix-reported-unit-for-rlimit_cpu fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~proc-fix-reported-unit-for-rlimit_cpu +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ struct limit_names { }; static const struct limit_names lnames[RLIM_NLIMITS] = { - [RLIMIT_CPU] = {"Max cpu time", "ms"}, + [RLIMIT_CPU] = {"Max cpu time", "seconds"}, [RLIMIT_FSIZE] = {"Max file size", "bytes"}, [RLIMIT_DATA] = {"Max data size", "bytes"}, [RLIMIT_STACK] = {"Max stack size", "bytes"}, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch proc-fix-reported-unit-for-rlimit_cpu.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html