3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>

commit 431e2bcc371016824f419baa745f82388258f3ee upstream.

Due to the hrtimer self rearming mode a user can DoS the machine simply
because it's starved by hrtimer events.

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: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
Cc: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>

---
 drivers/rtc/interface.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
+++ b/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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