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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vvs@sw.ru
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH netdev] "wrong timeout value" in sk_wait_data() v2
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:59:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070524.165947.09931811.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46552142.4090801@sw.ru>

From: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:23:14 +0400

> sys_setsockopt() do not check properly timeout values for
> SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO, for example it's possible to set negative timeout
> values. POSIX do not defines behaviour for sys_setsockopt in case negative
> timeouts, but requires that setsockopt() shall fail with -EDOM if the send and
> receive timeout values are too big to fit into the timeout fields in the socket
> structure.
> In current implementation negative timeout can lead to error messages like
> "schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value".
> 
> Proposed patch:
> - checks tv_usec and returns -EDOM if it is wrong
> - do not allows to set negative timeout values (sets 0 instead) and outputs
> ratelimited information message about such attempts.
> 
> Signed-Off-By:	Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>

Thank you for this bug fix, patch applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24  4:22 [PATCH netdev] "wrong timeout value" in sk_wait_data() Vasily Averin
2007-05-24  4:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-24  5:23   ` [PATCH netdev] "wrong timeout value" in sk_wait_data() v2 Vasily Averin
2007-05-24 23:59     ` David Miller [this message]

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