commit 431e2bcc371016824f419baa745f82388258f3ee upstream.
Due to the hrtimer self rearming mode a user can DoS the machine simply
because it's starved by hrtimer events.
The RTC hrtimer is self rearming. We really need to limit the frequency
to something sensible.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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