From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934707AbYBNV3R (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:29:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764579AbYBNV27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:28:59 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59500 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755006AbYBNV27 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:28:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:26:43 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds , Frans Pop , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Stable Team Subject: Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes Message-ID: <20080214212643.GA18521@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master > > The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing > checks in the relative to absolute time conversion in the futex > code. It got caught by the WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event(). > > The second patch prevents a false positive of the same WARN_ON(). > > Fixes are confirmed to solve http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/137 Are one of these needed in the stable tree? If so, you can just add a: Cc: stable to the signed-off-by area, and we (the stable tree developers) will get an automated email when it goes into Linus's tree, with the git changelog entry. thanks, greg k-h