On Thursday, 5-Jul-2007 at 11:48 MDT, "Chris Friesen" wrote: > Clemens Koller wrote: > > > Okay, we all survived Y2K and this little glitch. Puh! ;-) > > Can you please explain in which configuration this problem got triggered. > > As far as I can tell many kernel versions contained the source code bug. > (I'd like some more information on exactly what the problem was if > anyone cares to share..the proposed patch didn't give much in the way of > specifics.) > > However, in order to trigger the problem you also need to have NTP > servers that were erroneously broadcasting the addition of a leap second. > > So most people didn't see the issue because there wasn't supposed to be > a leap second added this year...but they would have seen it the next > time a leap second was added.
Only kernels built with the CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS option enabled were vulnerable. Cheers. -ernie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
