[PATCH 3.16 058/346] posix_cpu_timer: Exit early when process has been reaped

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Nov 13 2016 - 23:02:21 EST


3.16.39-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 2c13ce8f6b2f6fd9ba2f9261b1939fc0f62d1307 upstream.

Variable "now" seems to be genuinely used unintialized
if branch

if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer->it_clock)) {

is not taken and branch

if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) {

is taken. In this case the process has been reaped and the timer is marked as
disarmed anyway. So none of the postprocessing of the sample is
required. Return right away.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707223911.GA26483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_get(struct k
timer->it.cpu.expires = 0;
sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock, timer->it.cpu.expires,
&itp->it_value);
+ return;
} else {
cpu_timer_sample_group(timer->it_clock, p, &now);
unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);