linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timer: prevent overflow in apply

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1404172344420.22697@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:46:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer: prevent overflow in apply_slack

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Jiri Bohac wrote:

> Prevent overflow in the computation of timer expiry time inside
> apply_slack().

What's the impact of this overflow?

We don't want changelogs which describe what they do, we want them to
describe WHY and WHAT kind of problem the patch fixes.
 
Thanks,

	tglx
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