linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] timerfd add flags check

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:34:11 +1300
From:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] timerfd add flags check

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:
> Like Michael requested, this patch adds a missing check for valid flags in
> timerfd_settime(), and make it return EINVAL in case some extra bits are
> set. If this is or not a -stable thing, it Greg decision.
> Should be queued by Andrew for .30, unless -stable and Linus decide to
> get it before, like Michael suggested.

When these two patches are applied against .29-rc3:

$ make
[...]
  CC      fs/timerfd.o
fs/timerfd.c: In function 'sys_timerfd_create':
fs/timerfd.c:190: error: implicit declaration of function 'invalid_clockid'
make[1]: *** [fs/timerfd.o] Error 1
make: *** [fs] Error 2


Cheers,

Michael

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