From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: richardcochran@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ptp: validate the requested frequency adjustment.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:29:17 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140428.132917.2207057296687531685.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab098280c43e23292c28cabaa4cda13d8f21ca29.1398603530.git.richardcochran@gmail.com>
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:01:27 +0200
> PTP Hardware Clock drivers specify a maximum frequency adjustment that
> their clocks can accommodate. Normally, user space programs will want to
> respect the advertised limits. However, no kernel or driver code checks
> that the dialed frequency offset is within the bounds, and out of range
> values can lead to surprising results.
>
> This patch fixes the issue by rejecting bad values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Applied.
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2014-04-27 13:01 [PATCH net-next] ptp: validate the requested frequency adjustment Richard Cochran
2014-04-28 17:29 ` David Miller [this message]
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