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authorAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2007-05-08 00:30:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:13 -0700
commit35bab756b49bd148760a3bbd3c907cd74754dbb4 (patch)
tree8572b353c595a026931fe04e4bc20d1e50516e3f /kernel/itimer.c
parentb3561ea9462b33a0bf824b4ca19a1ae84db81210 (diff)
The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer
As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/itimer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/itimer.c59
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 56 deletions
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)
}
/*
- * 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: