From: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "P." <mailme667@yahoo.co.uk>,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] rtc: Fix alarm rollover when day or month is out-of-range
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:41:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120102144138.034f5831@linux.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111231003552.GB22266@elie.Belkin>
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:35:52 -0600
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:41:56 +0100
>
> Commit f44f7f96a20a ('RTC: Initialize kernel state from RTC')
> introduced a potential infinite loop. If an alarm time contains a
> wildcard month and an invalid day (> 31), or a wildcard year and an
> invalid month (>= 12), the loop searching for the next matching date
> will never terminate. Treat the invalid values as wildcards.
>
> Fixes <http://bugs.debian.org/646429>, <http://bugs.debian.org/653331>
>
> Reported-by: leo weppelman <leoweppelman@googlemail.com>
> Reported-by: "P. van Gaans" <mailme667@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Seems reasonable, ty.
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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2011-12-30 23:53 P.
2011-12-31 0:35 ` [PATCH resend] rtc: Fix alarm rollover when day or month is out-of-range Jonathan Nieder
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