Commit ec054bbd authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtc: limit frequency

commit 431e2bcc upstream.

Due to the hrtimer self rearming mode a user can DoS the machine simply
because it's starved by hrtimer events.

The RTC hrtimer is self rearming.  We really need to limit the frequency
to something sensible.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent e9c5291b
......@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ int rtc_irq_set_freq(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct rtc_task *task, int freq)
int err = 0;
unsigned long flags;
if (freq <= 0)
if (freq <= 0 || freq > 5000)
return -EINVAL;
retry:
spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->irq_task_lock, flags);
......
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