From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933295AbXCRV5s (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:57:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933317AbXCRV5s (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:57:48 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:34423 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933295AbXCRV5r (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:57:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] hrtimer: prevent overrun DoS in hrtimer_forward() From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Andrew Morton , Johannes Bauer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwab@suse.de, Stable Kernel Team , Greg KH , Adrian Bunk , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <45FDB4C9.5030103@redhat.com> References: <45F6F3A6.9060405@gmx.de> <45F7033B.2030204@redhat.com> <1173817985.13341.120.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1173866413.13341.154.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070316124313.9f0afc05.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1174079120.13341.286.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45FDAC3B.6000202@redhat.com> <1174253579.13341.477.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45FDB4C9.5030103@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:04:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1174255487.13341.480.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 17:53 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> Just to be clear: this replaces the earlier patch, right? > > > > This replaces the fix Andrew did. > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117407812411997&w=2 > > > > Right, but is the original "Prevent DOS" patch from you still needed? > Or did Andrew's patch replace that one, and now this replaces his? The original patch is still needed - it handles the problem in the first place. I missed to compile it for 32bit and Andrew did a fix, which I replaced. tglx