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

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Message-ID: <F1D642E5A91BC94D9504EC83AE19E6B0128A68@ecqcmtlmail3.quebec.int.ec.gc.ca>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:06:10 -0400
From:	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...GC.CA>
To:	"Chuck Ebbert" <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	"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?

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org] De la part de Chuck Ebbert
> Envoyé : 3 juillet 2007 17:03
> 
> 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

Thanx a lot!  This was fast! (beat that closed source!)

- vin

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