From cbb209e8e18fef8b18a75140206adde827268c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:30:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 54705 b: refs/heads/master c: 35bab756b49bd148760a3bbd3c907cd74754dbb4 h: refs/heads/master i: 54703: fb702a62415a9d5d835996ba5cf2e0aa58cb92a5 v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- .../feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ---- trunk/kernel/itimer.c | 59 +------------------ 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index ca7896f78328..3102d3ad1ba6 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: b3561ea9462b33a0bf824b4ca19a1ae84db81210 +refs/heads/master: 35bab756b49bd148760a3bbd3c907cd74754dbb4 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5a1f0319add1..54d0e72ce2c6 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -117,18 +117,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer -When: March 2007 -Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This - was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were - silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals. - Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed - and the timevals are sanitized. - -Who: Thomas Gleixner - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. diff --git a/trunk/kernel/itimer.c b/trunk/kernel/itimer.c index 4523f3396f23..3205e8e114fa 100644 --- a/trunk/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/trunk/kernel/itimer.c @@ -137,60 +137,12 @@ enum hrtimer_restart it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *timer) return HRTIMER_NORESTART; } -/* - * We do not care about correctness. We just sanitize the values so - * the ktime_t operations which expect normalized values do not - * break. This converts negative values to long timeouts similar to - * the code in kernel versions < 2.6.16 - * - * Print a limited number of warning messages when an invalid timeval - * is detected. - */ -static void fixup_timeval(struct timeval *tv, int interval) -{ - static int warnlimit = 10; - unsigned long tmp; - - if (warnlimit > 0) { - warnlimit--; - printk(KERN_WARNING - "setitimer: %s (pid = %d) provided " - "invalid timeval %s: tv_sec = %ld tv_usec = %ld\n", - current->comm, current->pid, - interval ? "it_interval" : "it_value", - tv->tv_sec, (long) tv->tv_usec); - } - - tmp = tv->tv_usec; - if (tmp >= USEC_PER_SEC) { - tv->tv_usec = tmp % USEC_PER_SEC; - tv->tv_sec += tmp / USEC_PER_SEC; - } - - tmp = tv->tv_sec; - if (tmp > LONG_MAX) - tv->tv_sec = LONG_MAX; -} - /* * Returns true if the timeval is in canonical form */ #define timeval_valid(t) \ (((t)->tv_sec >= 0) && (((unsigned long) (t)->tv_usec) < USEC_PER_SEC)) -/* - * Check for invalid timevals, sanitize them and print a limited - * number of warnings. - */ -static void check_itimerval(struct itimerval *value) { - - if (unlikely(!timeval_valid(&value->it_value))) - fixup_timeval(&value->it_value, 0); - - if (unlikely(!timeval_valid(&value->it_interval))) - fixup_timeval(&value->it_interval, 1); -} - int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue) { struct task_struct *tsk = current; @@ -200,15 +152,10 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue) /* * Validate the timevals in value. - * - * Note: Although the spec requires that invalid values shall - * return -EINVAL, we just fixup the value and print a limited - * number of warnings in order not to break users of this - * historical misfeature. - * - * Scheduled for replacement in March 2007 */ - check_itimerval(value); + if (!timeval_valid(&value->it_value) || + !timeval_valid(&value->it_interval)) + return -EINVAL; switch (which) { case ITIMER_REAL: