[PATCH] select: time comparison fixes
I got all of these backwards. We want to return
min(input timeout, new timeout)
to userspace to prevent increasing the time-remaining value.
Thanks to Ernst Herzberg <earny@net4u.de> for reporting and diagnosing.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/select.c b/fs/select.c
index 6ce68a9..1815a57 100644
--- a/fs/select.c
+++ b/fs/select.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
goto sticky;
rtv.tv_usec = jiffies_to_usecs(do_div((*(u64*)&timeout), HZ));
rtv.tv_sec = timeout;
- if (timeval_compare(&rtv, &tv) < 0)
+ if (timeval_compare(&rtv, &tv) >= 0)
rtv = tv;
if (copy_to_user(tvp, &rtv, sizeof(rtv))) {
sticky:
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@
rts.tv_nsec = jiffies_to_usecs(do_div((*(u64*)&timeout), HZ)) *
1000;
rts.tv_sec = timeout;
- if (timespec_compare(&rts, &ts) < 0)
+ if (timespec_compare(&rts, &ts) >= 0)
rts = ts;
if (copy_to_user(tsp, &rts, sizeof(rts))) {
sticky:
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
rts.tv_nsec = jiffies_to_usecs(do_div((*(u64*)&timeout), HZ)) *
1000;
rts.tv_sec = timeout;
- if (timespec_compare(&rts, &ts) < 0)
+ if (timespec_compare(&rts, &ts) >= 0)
rts = ts;
if (copy_to_user(tsp, &rts, sizeof(rts))) {
sticky: