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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-03-24 03:18:35 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-04-17 13:16:06 -0700
commit284a7c99c01846ee44040268529c99fc92dcc531 (patch)
tree73722b8f455d37ce6160cebc90f6d2734ce7aee4 /kernel
parentbc5bd8ac3c6956c7ce2c838e8e2f01435b8e4e0b (diff)
[PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit
At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero seconds. But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does. Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead of overloading the value of it_prof_expires). Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's zero-seconds as one second. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index f91218a5463..105e102e1c4 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1657,7 +1657,19 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setrlimit(unsigned int resource, struct rlimit __user *rlim)
(cputime_eq(current->signal->it_prof_expires, cputime_zero) ||
new_rlim.rlim_cur <= cputime_to_secs(
current->signal->it_prof_expires))) {
- cputime_t cputime = secs_to_cputime(new_rlim.rlim_cur);
+ unsigned long rlim_cur = new_rlim.rlim_cur;
+ cputime_t cputime;
+
+ if (rlim_cur == 0) {
+ /*
+ * The caller is asking for an immediate RLIMIT_CPU
+ * expiry. But we use the zero value to mean "it was
+ * never set". So let's cheat and make it one second
+ * instead
+ */
+ rlim_cur = 1;
+ }
+ cputime = secs_to_cputime(rlim_cur);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
set_process_cpu_timer(current, CPUCLOCK_PROF,