The RTC hrtimer is self rearming. We really need to limit the
frequency to something sensible.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
---
 drivers/rtc/interface.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/rtc/interface.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/rtc/interface.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/rtc/interface.c
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ int rtc_irq_set_freq(struct rtc_device *
        int err = 0;
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       if (freq <= 0)
+       if (freq <= 0 || freq > 5000)
                return -EINVAL;
 retry:
        spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->irq_task_lock, flags);


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