[PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:03:42 +0000 (00:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:00:02 +0000 (11:00 -0700)
commit96dd7421a06a5bc6eb731323b95efcb2fd864854
treea450951e439f897ee92ba6b068efb77c0edc6a1a
parentfe2bbc4832659b7ffc867cac03e0a92ae81e11e4
[PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

Frank v.  Waveren pointed out that on 64bit machines the timespec to
ktime_t conversion might overflow.  This is also true for timeval to
ktime_t conversions.  This breaks a "sleep inf" on 64bit machines.

While a timespec/timeval with tx.sec = MAX_LONG is valid by specification
the internal representation of ktime_t is based on nanoseconds.  The
conversion of seconds to nanoseconds overflows for seconds values >=
(MAX_LONG / NSEC_PER_SEC).

Check the seconds argument to the conversion and limit it to the maximum
time which can be represented by ktime_t.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/linux/ktime.h