Re: [patch] time: cast ->raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow

From: John Stultz
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 15:18:00 EST

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On 10/09/2012 12:18 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

We fixed a bunch of integer overflows in timekeeping code during the 3.6
cycle. I did an audit based on that and found this potential overflow.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yep. Looks like this would trigger if you had NOZ idle for more then 4 seconds.

Thanks for the audit, and sending this in!

Thomas: Mind queuing this? Probably should be marked for stable too.

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>

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