diff -urN linux-2.4.32-wt1-1/fs/select.c linux-2.4.32-wt1-2/fs/select.c
--- linux-2.4.32-wt1-1/fs/select.c	2005-12-04 22:25:28.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.32-wt1-2/fs/select.c	2005-12-04 22:28:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/personality.h> /* for STICKY_TIMEOUTS */
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -433,11 +434,10 @@
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (timeout) {
-		/* Careful about overflow in the intermediate values */
-		if ((unsigned long) timeout < MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT / HZ)
-			timeout = (unsigned long)(timeout*HZ+999)/1000+1;
-		else /* Negative or overflow */
-			timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
+		if (unlikely(timeout < 0 ||
+                	(timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(timeout)) >=
+				 MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET))
+                	timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
 	}
 
 	poll_initwait(&table);