Re: [PATCH] KEYS: Have the garbage collector set its timer forlive expired keys

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The key garbage collector sets a timer to start a new collection cycle at the
> point the earliest key to expire should be considered garbage.  However, it
> currently only does this if the key it is considering hasn't yet expired.
> 
> If the key being considering has expired, but hasn't yet reached the collection
> time then it is ignored, and won't be collected until some other key provokes a
> round of collection.
> 
> Make the garbage collector set the timer for the earliest key that hasn't yet
> passed its collection time, rather than the earliest key that hasn't yet
> expired.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

Is this in response to my bugreport? (If yes then the changelog is quite 
vague about the circumstances of the bug, its effects, which tools were 
used to find it, etc. etc.)

	Ingo
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