* Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hrtimer_forward() does not check for the possible overflow of
> timer->expires. This can happen on 64 bit machines with large interval
> values and results currently in an endless loop in the softirq because
> the expiry value becomes negative and therefor the timer is expired
> all the time.
>
> Check for this condition and set the expiry value to the max. expiry
> time in the future.
>
> The fix should be applied to stable kernel series as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED],de>
ouch ... nice one.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ingo
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