[patch 46/69] [PATCH] x86_64 : Fix vgettimeofday()

From: Chris Wright
Date: Mon May 21 2007 - 15:57:09 EST


-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

vgettimeofday() may return some bad timeval values, (tv_usec = 1000000), because of a wrong compare.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
+++ linux-2.6.21.1/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static __always_inline void do_vgettimeo

/* convert to usecs and add to timespec: */
tv->tv_usec += nsec_delta / NSEC_PER_USEC;
- while (tv->tv_usec > USEC_PER_SEC) {
+ while (tv->tv_usec >= USEC_PER_SEC) {
tv->tv_sec += 1;
tv->tv_usec -= USEC_PER_SEC;
}

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