* Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to the specification the timeval must be validated and an
> errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timeval is not in canonical
> form. Before the hrtimer merge this was silently ignored by the
> timeval to jiffies conversion. The validation is done inside
> do_setitimer so all callers are catched.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
ok - bad (invalid) timevals were thus randomly interpreted? I agree that
even though this is new behavior, it is much better to return -EINVAL
than to behave randomly. OTOH, since 2.6.15 and earlier did this too, is
there any urgency to apply this to 2.6.16?
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Ingo
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