[PATCH] Fix timeout overflow with jiffies

Prevent timeout overflow if timer ticks are behind jiffies (due to high
softirq load or due to dyntick), by limiting the valid timeout range to
MAX_LONG/2.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: john stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index 9243cefa45123bb08dad178412ee9fedbc7ee85f..c080f61fb024fb053e111a8878d9c7b12788c001 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
  *
  * And some not so obvious.
  *
- * Note that we don't want to return MAX_LONG, because
+ * Note that we don't want to return LONG_MAX, because
  * for various timeout reasons we often end up having
  * to wait "jiffies+1" in order to guarantee that we wait
  * at _least_ "jiffies" - so "jiffies+1" had better still
  * be positive.
  */
-#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((~0UL >> 1)-1)
+#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((LONG_MAX >> 1)-1)
 
 /*
  * We want to do realistic conversions of time so we need to use the same