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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2011-07-26 16:08:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Jonas ABERG <jonas.aberg@stericsson.com> | 2011-10-28 11:05:37 +0200 |
| commit | ccc81383adeda7251c8eb02740f0758fd0c5449a (patch) | |
| tree | 9db89e406766cae3f1588ad7445e900e87e0c5b3 /lib/bitmap.c | |
| parent | f5d3e752d38e5b95c6e0f09ba35c1429d74fce45 (diff) | |
rtc: limit frequency
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Change-Id: I9c1217a3d2e04c0be8a12b028d0a921c708b91d9
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.lud.stericsson.com/gerrit/35595
Tested-by: Per VAHLNE <per.xx.vahlne@stericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonas ABERG <jonas.aberg@stericsson.com>
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