[PATCH -mm] timespec: normalize off by one errors

[Thomas Gleixner]

Linus tree has a fix for set_normalized_timespec (commit
3f39894d1b5c253b10fcb8fbbbcf65a330f6cdc7)

[PATCH] timespec: normalize off by one errors

It would appear that the timespec normalize code has an off by one error.
Found in three places.  Thanks to Ben for spotting.
Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@xxxxxxxxxx>


It got lost in -mm due to the deinlining of set_normalized_timespec

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Index: linux-2.6.15-rc2-mm1/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc2-mm1.orig/kernel/time.c
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc2-mm1/kernel/time.c
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mktime);
  */
 void set_normalized_timespec (struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, long nsec)
 {
-	while (nsec > NSEC_PER_SEC) {
+	while (nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
 		nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
 		++sec;
 	}


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