The patch below does not apply to the 3.0-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <sta...@kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 6e7a333eaa522ef73be01caec7a01521490aaf00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:12:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: Limit RTC PIE frequency
The RTC pie hrtimer is self rearming. We really need to limit the
frequency to something sensible. Thus limit it to the 8192Hz max
value from the rtc man documentation
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
[jstultz: slightly reworked to use RTC_MAX_FREQ value]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
index a1ba2ca..44e91e5 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ int rtc_irq_set_freq(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct
rtc_task *task, int freq)
int err = 0;
unsigned long flags;
- if (freq <= 0)
+ if (freq <= 0 || freq > RTC_MAX_FREQ)
return -EINVAL;
retry:
spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->irq_task_lock, flags);
diff --git a/include/linux/rtc.h b/include/linux/rtc.h
index b27ebea..93f4d03 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtc.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ struct rtc_pll_info {
#define RTC_AF 0x20 /* Alarm interrupt */
#define RTC_UF 0x10 /* Update interrupt for 1Hz RTC */
+
+#define RTC_MAX_FREQ 8192
+
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/types.h>
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