Commit ab3dee26406b for kernel
commit ab3dee26406be0ed0a26af70311dcdc760db3996
Merge: 02640d8886a1 d6e152d905bd
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun Apr 12 10:01:55 2026 -0700
Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two fixes for the time/timers subsystem:
- Invert the inverted fastpath decision in check_tick_dependency(),
which prevents NOHZ full to stop the tick. That's a regression
introduced in the 7.0 merge window.
- Prevent a unpriviledged DoS in the clockevents code, where user
space can starve the timer interrupt by arming a timerfd or posix
interval timer in a tight loop with an absolute expiry time in the
past. The fix turned out to be incomplete and was was amended
yesterday to make it work on some 20 years old AMD machines as
well. All issues with it have been confirmed to be resolved by
various reporters"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clockevents: Prevent timer interrupt starvation
tick/nohz: Fix inverted return value in check_tick_dependency() fast path