linux-kernel - Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.

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Date:	Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:54:40 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	lkml@...idb.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drepper@...hat.com,
	mtk-manpages@....net
Subject: Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0.

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> diff -puN kernel/compat.c~a kernel/compat.c
> --- a/kernel/compat.c~a
> +++ a/kernel/compat.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_times(struct 
>  		if (copy_to_user(tbuf, &tmp, sizeof(tmp)))
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  	}
> -	return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t(jiffies);
> +	return compat_jiffies_to_clock_t((jiffies + INITIAL_JIFFIES) &
> +						LONG_MAX);

Are you sure you want LONG_MAX here, not 0x7fffffff?

Andreas.

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