Merge branch 'fortglx/3.1/tip/timers/rtc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/urgent
diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 59f369f..ea5e1a9 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -441,6 +441,8 @@
static void alarm_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr,
struct itimerspec *cur_setting)
{
+ memset(cur_setting, 0, sizeof(struct itimerspec));
+
cur_setting->it_interval =
ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.period);
cur_setting->it_value =
@@ -479,11 +481,17 @@
if (!rtcdev)
return -ENOTSUPP;
- /* Save old values */
- old_setting->it_interval =
- ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.period);
- old_setting->it_value =
- ktime_to_timespec(timr->it.alarmtimer.node.expires);
+ /*
+ * XXX HACK! Currently we can DOS a system if the interval
+ * period on alarmtimers is too small. Cap the interval here
+ * to 100us and solve this properly in a future patch! -jstultz
+ */
+ if ((new_setting->it_interval.tv_sec == 0) &&
+ (new_setting->it_interval.tv_nsec < 100000))
+ new_setting->it_interval.tv_nsec = 100000;
+
+ if (old_setting)
+ alarm_timer_get(timr, old_setting);
/* If the timer was already set, cancel it */
alarm_cancel(&timr->it.alarmtimer);
