From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765444AbYBNVig (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:38:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754451AbYBNVi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:38:26 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:44222 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752985AbYBNVi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:38:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:37:49 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Greg KH cc: Linus Torvalds , Frans Pop , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Stable Team Subject: Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes In-Reply-To: <20080214212643.GA18521@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20080214212643.GA18521@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Linus, > > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master > > > > The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing > > checks in the relative to absolute time conversion in the futex > > code. It got caught by the WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event(). > > > > The second patch prevents a false positive of the same WARN_ON(). > > > > Fixes are confirmed to solve http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/137 > > Are one of these needed in the stable tree? Yes, both are for stable as well. The report was against 2.6.24 stable > If so, you can just add a: > Cc: stable > to the signed-off-by area, and we (the stable tree developers) will get > an automated email when it goes into Linus's tree, with the git > changelog entry. Will do next time. Thanks, tglx