Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()

From: Chris Wright
Date: Mon Mar 30 2009 - 23:02:23 EST


* Oleg Nesterov (oleg@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911
>
> copy_signal() copies signal->rlim, but RLIMIT_CPU is "lost". Because
> posix_cpu_timers_init_group() sets cputime_expires.prof_exp = 0 and thus
> fastpath_timer_check() returns false unless we have other expired cpu timers.
>
> Change copy_signal() to set cputime_expires.prof_exp if we have RLIMIT_CPU.
> Also, set cputimer.running = 1 in that case. This is not strictly necessary,
> but imho makes sense.

For -stable should this be instead of 37bebc70d7ad4144c571d74500db3bb26ec0c0eb?

thanks,
-chris
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