[PATCH 2/2] posix_timer: clean up properly if anything fails after *_timer_create

From: Andrey Vagin
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 09:33:55 EST


*_timer_create may allocate/get some resources, so need call *_timer_cleanup.

https://bugzilla.sw.ru/show_bug.cgi?id=473702

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/posix-timers.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 1195668..8d7cb0e 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -574,19 +574,19 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
if (copy_to_user(created_timer_id,
&new_timer_id, sizeof (new_timer_id))) {
error = -EFAULT;
- goto out;
+ goto out_cleanup;
}
if (timer_event_spec) {
if (copy_from_user(&event, timer_event_spec, sizeof (event))) {
error = -EFAULT;
- goto out;
+ goto out_cleanup;
}
rcu_read_lock();
new_timer->it_pid = get_pid(good_sigevent(&event));
rcu_read_unlock();
if (!new_timer->it_pid) {
error = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
+ goto out_cleanup;
}
} else {
event.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
@@ -613,6 +613,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
* and may cease to exist at any time. Don't use or modify
* new_timer after the unlock call.
*/
+out_cleanup:
+ CLOCK_DISPATCH(new_timer->it_clock, timer_cleanup, (new_timer));
out:
release_posix_timer(new_timer, it_id_set);
return error;
--
1.6.6

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