linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

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Date:	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:02:46 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
CC:	Arne Georg Gleditsch <argggh@...phinics.no>,
	Florian Attenberger <valdyn@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

On 07/03/2007 03:28 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote:
> 
>> An interesting exercise might be to
>> code up a small program to call adjtimex with timex.status |= STA_INS,
>> to see if this can trigger the problem.
> 
> Setting the date to just before midnight June 30 UTC and then running
> the following as root triggered the crash on a modified 2.6.10.  Anyone
> see anything wrong with the code below, or is this a valid indication of
> a bug in the leap second code?
> 

Fixed:
http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=746976a301ac9c9aa10d7d42454f8d6cdad8ff2b

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