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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-08-31 08:09:53 -0700
committerArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2008-09-05 21:34:57 -0700
commitdf0cc0539b4127bd02f64de2c335b4af1fdb3845 (patch)
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select: add a timespec_add_safe() function
For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec structures in an overflow-safe manner. This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index 6a08660..d63a433 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -669,3 +669,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_jiffies_64);
#endif
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies);
+
+/*
+ * Add two timespec values and do a safety check for overflow.
+ * It's assumed that both values are valid (>= 0)
+ */
+struct timespec timespec_add_safe(const struct timespec lhs,
+ const struct timespec rhs)
+{
+ struct timespec res;
+
+ set_normalized_timespec(&res, lhs.tv_sec + rhs.tv_sec,
+ lhs.tv_nsec + rhs.tv_nsec);
+
+ if (res.tv_sec < lhs.tv_sec || res.tv_sec < rhs.tv_sec)
+ res.tv_sec = TIME_T_MAX;
+
+ return res;
+}