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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2011-09-21 08:48:33 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2011-09-21 08:48:33 +0100
commitf70cac8d9c7125f83048f8b3d1c60f5a041a165c (patch)
tree0d0efd72c1a41f973a919b16aac1d8210ed1ee30 /kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
parent4722cd7741c6404f967f7a7b8b666540b6c1663e (diff)
parent08aab447c56a5388cf0c768da476ad022f00fef8 (diff)
Merge branch 'kprobes-test' of git://git.yxit.co.uk/linux into devel-stable
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/alarmtimer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/alarmtimer.c18
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 59f369f98a0..ea5e1a928d5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -441,6 +441,8 @@ static int alarm_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
static void alarm_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr,
struct itimerspec *cur_setting)
{
+ memset(cur_setting, 0, sizeof(struct itimerspec));
+
cur_setting->it_interval =
ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.period);
cur_setting->it_value =
@@ -479,11 +481,17 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int flags,
if (!rtcdev)
return -ENOTSUPP;
- /* Save old values */
- old_setting->it_interval =
- ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.period);
- old_setting->it_value =
- ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.node.expires);
+ /*
+ * XXX HACK! Currently we can DOS a system if the interval
+ * period on alarmtimers is too small. Cap the interval here
+ * to 100us and solve this properly in a future patch! -jstultz
+ */
+ if ((new_setting->it_interval.tv_sec == 0) &&
+ (new_setting->it_interval.tv_nsec < 100000))
+ new_setting->it_interval.tv_nsec = 100000;
+
+ if (old_setting)
+ alarm_timer_get(timr, old_setting);
/* If the timer was already set, cancel it */
alarm_cancel(&timr->it.alarmtimer);