On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 6:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote: > The posix timer ti_overrun handling is broken because the forwarding > functions can return a huge number of overruns which does not fit in an > int. As a consequence timer_getoverrun(2) and siginfo::si_overrun can turn > into random number generators. > > As a first step to address that let the timer_forward() callbacks return > the full 64 bit value. > > Cast it to (int) temporarily until k_itimer::ti_overrun is converted to > 64bit and the conversion to user space visible values is sanitized. > > Reported-by: air icy <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Looks ok, and doesn't trip any regressions in testing so far. Acked-by: John Stultz <[email protected]> thanks -john
