Re: [PATCH] timer: prevent overflow in apply_slack

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Jiri Bohac wrote: > Prevent overflow in the computation of timer expiry time inside > apply_slack(). What's the impact of this overflow? We don't want changelogs which describe what they do, we want them to describe WHY and WHAT kind of problem the patch fixes. Thanks,

[PATCH] timer: prevent overflow in apply_slack

Prevent overflow in the computation of timer expiry time inside apply_slack(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac Suggested-by: Deborah Townsend diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 87bd529..4c36c91 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ unsigned long apply_sl