From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, trini@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Validate itimer timeval from userspace
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:16:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142712975.17279.131.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060318120728.63cbad54.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 12:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From my reading, 2.4's sys_setitimer() will normalise the incoming timeval
> rather than rejecting it. And I think 2.6.13 did that too.
>
> It would be bad of us to change this behaviour, even if that's what the
> spec says we should do - because we can break existing applications.
>
> So I think we're stuck with it - we should normalise and then accept such
> timevals. And we should have a big comment explaining how we differ from
> the spec, and why.
Hmm. How do you treat a negative value ?
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-18 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-18 15:18 [patch 0/2] sys_setitimer and sys_alarm hotfixes Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 15:18 ` [patch 1/2] Validate itimer timeval from userspace Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 19:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-18 19:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 20:16 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-03-18 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 20:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 21:26 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-18 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 21:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-18 22:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 23:12 ` tglx
2006-03-18 20:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-18 22:02 ` Ray Lee
2006-03-18 23:14 ` Eric Piel
2006-03-19 8:55 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-03-18 20:23 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-18 20:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-21 15:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-18 15:18 ` [patch 2/2] alarm unsigned signed conversion fixup Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 20:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 20:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-03-18 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
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