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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 9e157e0240d4..19d058be49d4 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1656,6 +1656,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_setrlimit(unsigned int resource, struct rlimit __user *rlim) if (resource != RLIMIT_CPU) goto out; + + /* + * RLIMIT_CPU handling. Note that the kernel fails to return an error + * code if it rejected the user's attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU. This is a + * very long-standing error, and fixing it now risks breakage of + * applications, so we live with it + */ if (new_rlim.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY) goto out; |