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Thomas Gleixner c08b8a4910 [PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup ... alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds. The value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the itimer. The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX. Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion. It's not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the timeval_to_jiffies code. hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as already expired. This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a timeout value > INT_MAX seconds. For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds value to avoid API breakage. Instead of doing this in all implementations of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function in itimer.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		19 years ago
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boot	Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild	19 years ago
crypto	[CRYPTO] aes: Fixed array boundary violation	19 years ago
ia32	[PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup	19 years ago
kernel	[PATCH] early_printk: cleanup trailiing whitespace	19 years ago
lib	[PATCH] x86_64: Undo the earlier changes to remove unrolled copy/memset functions	19 years ago
mm	[PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/	19 years ago
oprofile	[PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu	20 years ago
pci	[PATCH] x86_64: {set,clear,test}_bit() related cleanup and pci_mmcfg_init() fix	19 years ago
Kconfig	Make Kprobes depend on modules	19 years ago
Kconfig.debug	[PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_INIT_DEBUG	19 years ago
Makefile	[PATCH] x86_64: Allow compilation on a 32bit biarch toolchain	19 years ago
defconfig	[PATCH] x86_64: Don't set CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO in defconfig	19 years ago