Re: [PATCH] hrtimer: prevent overrun DoS in hrtimer_forward()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Mar 18 2007 - 17:58:07 EST


On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 17:53 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >> Just to be clear: this replaces the earlier patch, right?
> >
> > This replaces the fix Andrew did.
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117407812411997&w=2
> >
>
> Right, but is the original "Prevent DOS" patch from you still needed?
> Or did Andrew's patch replace that one, and now this replaces his?

The original patch is still needed - it handles the problem in the first
place.

I missed to compile it for 32bit and Andrew did a fix, which I replaced.

tglx


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