Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:42:46PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
> Commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") sets a
> minimum bound on the alarm timer interval.  This minimum bound shouldn't
> be applied if the interval is 0.  Otherwise, one-shot timers will be
> converted into periodic ones.
> 
> This patch is specific to 4.11.y and 4.12.y.  Older -stable trees have a
> slightly different patch, and 4.13-rc2 isn't impacted due to a later
> refactoring.
> 
> Fixes: ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals")
> Reported-by: Ben Fennema <fennema@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h