3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> commit 431e2bcc371016824f419baa745f82388258f3ee upstream. Due to the hrtimer self rearming mode a user can DoS the machine simply because it's starved by hrtimer events. The RTC hrtimer is self rearming. We really need to limit the frequency to something sensible. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Ben Greear <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/rtc/interface.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ int rtc_irq_set_freq(struct rtc_device * int err = 0; unsigned long flags; - if (freq <= 0) + if (freq <= 0 || freq > 5000) return -EINVAL; retry: spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->irq_task_lock, flags); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
