From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: tmarshall@real.com, pmarques@grupopie.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: itimer oddness in 2.6.12
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:17:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050725231720.507d4b38.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E1A208.8060408@mvista.com>
George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> + while (time_before_eq(p->signal->real_timer.expires, jiffies))
> + p->signal->real_timer.expires += inc;
It gives me the creeps when I see timer code doing this, and it seems to be
done relatively frequently.
Surely it can be calculated arithmetically? If not, are you really sure
that it is not exploitable by malicious code?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-26 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 17:16 Tom Marshall
2005-07-22 19:21 ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-22 20:58 ` Tom Marshall
2005-07-23 1:48 ` [PATCH] " George Anzinger
2005-07-25 11:58 ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-25 19:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-26 6:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-07-26 14:36 ` George Anzinger
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