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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-04-12 15:16:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-04-12 15:16:26 -0700 |
| commit | ccb1ec95e924a24906ef01ce6d028a8dc13dc87d (patch) | |
| tree | b16a02083ba6843fe3f2513f74a72c95d43ddccb /Documentation | |
| parent | 4a1d7544fee5e601a4e642ce2720689f90428d65 (diff) | |
| parent | d48fc63f6f3f485ed5aa9cf019d8e8e3a7d10263 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"The itimer removal one is not strictly a fix, but I really wanted to
avoid a rebase of the urgent ones."
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "clocksource: Load the ACPI PM clocksource asynchronously"
clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
itimer: Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE
nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart()
tick: Document TICK_ONESHOT config option
proc: stats: Use arch_idle_time for idle and iowait times if available
itimer: Schedule silent NULL pointer fixup in setitimer() for removal
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 709e08e9a222..03ca210406ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -531,3 +531,11 @@ Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall, of ASLR. It was only ever intended for debugging, so it should be removed. Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value) +When: 3.6 +Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This + violates the spec. +Who: Sasikantha Babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> |