On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:12:50 -0000 > Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > The code checks the correctness of the parameters, but unconditionally > > arms/disarms the hrtimer. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > > Cc: sta...@kernel.org > > The -stable maintainers will want to know why they should merge this. > > The maintainers of other trees will wonder whether they should backport > it too. > > To help them make these decision we should always provide a description > of the user-visible effects of the bug, please.
Fair enough. The result is that a random task might arm/disarm rtc timer and surprise the real owner by either generating events or by stopping them. Both undesired behaviour :) _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
