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-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt12
-rw-r--r--kernel/itimer.c59
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 68 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 5a1f0319add1..54d0e72ce2c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -117,18 +117,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
117 117
118--------------------------- 118---------------------------
119 119
120What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer
121When: March 2007
122Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This
123 was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were
124 silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals.
125 Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed
126 and the timevals are sanitized.
127
128Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
129
130---------------------------
131
132What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports 120What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
133 (temporary transition config option provided until then) 121 (temporary transition config option provided until then)
134 The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. 122 The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.
diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c
index 4523f3396f23..3205e8e114fa 100644
--- a/kernel/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/itimer.c
@@ -138,59 +138,11 @@ enum hrtimer_restart it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *timer)
138} 138}
139 139
140/* 140/*
141 * We do not care about correctness. We just sanitize the values so
142 * the ktime_t operations which expect normalized values do not
143 * break. This converts negative values to long timeouts similar to
144 * the code in kernel versions < 2.6.16
145 *
146 * Print a limited number of warning messages when an invalid timeval
147 * is detected.
148 */
149static void fixup_timeval(struct timeval *tv, int interval)
150{
151 static int warnlimit = 10;
152 unsigned long tmp;
153
154 if (warnlimit > 0) {
155 warnlimit--;
156 printk(KERN_WARNING
157 "setitimer: %s (pid = %d) provided "
158 "invalid timeval %s: tv_sec = %ld tv_usec = %ld\n",
159 current->comm, current->pid,
160 interval ? "it_interval" : "it_value",
161 tv->tv_sec, (long) tv->tv_usec);
162 }
163
164 tmp = tv->tv_usec;
165 if (tmp >= USEC_PER_SEC) {
166 tv->tv_usec = tmp % USEC_PER_SEC;
167 tv->tv_sec += tmp / USEC_PER_SEC;
168 }
169
170 tmp = tv->tv_sec;
171 if (tmp > LONG_MAX)
172 tv->tv_sec = LONG_MAX;
173}
174
175/*
176 * Returns true if the timeval is in canonical form 141 * Returns true if the timeval is in canonical form
177 */ 142 */
178#define timeval_valid(t) \ 143#define timeval_valid(t) \
179 (((t)->tv_sec >= 0) && (((unsigned long) (t)->tv_usec) < USEC_PER_SEC)) 144 (((t)->tv_sec >= 0) && (((unsigned long) (t)->tv_usec) < USEC_PER_SEC))
180 145
181/*
182 * Check for invalid timevals, sanitize them and print a limited
183 * number of warnings.
184 */
185static void check_itimerval(struct itimerval *value) {
186
187 if (unlikely(!timeval_valid(&value->it_value)))
188 fixup_timeval(&value->it_value, 0);
189
190 if (unlikely(!timeval_valid(&value->it_interval)))
191 fixup_timeval(&value->it_interval, 1);
192}
193
194int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue) 146int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue)
195{ 147{
196 struct task_struct *tsk = current; 148 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
@@ -200,15 +152,10 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue)
200 152
201 /* 153 /*
202 * Validate the timevals in value. 154 * Validate the timevals in value.
203 *
204 * Note: Although the spec requires that invalid values shall
205 * return -EINVAL, we just fixup the value and print a limited
206 * number of warnings in order not to break users of this
207 * historical misfeature.
208 *
209 * Scheduled for replacement in March 2007
210 */ 155 */
211 check_itimerval(value); 156 if (!timeval_valid(&value->it_value) ||
157 !timeval_valid(&value->it_interval))
158 return -EINVAL;
212 159
213 switch (which) { 160 switch (which) {
214 case ITIMER_REAL: 161 case ITIMER_REAL: