[PATCH 3/3] posix_timer: move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create

[Andrey Vagin]

According to Oleg Nesterov:
We can move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down after
"if (timer_event_spec)" block too. (but before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
of course).

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/posix-timers.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index ad72342..9ca4973 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -560,11 +560,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
 	new_timer->it_clock = which_clock;
 	new_timer->it_overrun = -1;
 
-	if (copy_to_user(created_timer_id,
-			 &new_timer_id, sizeof (new_timer_id))) {
-		error = -EFAULT;
-		goto out;
-	}
 	if (timer_event_spec) {
 		if (copy_from_user(&event, timer_event_spec, sizeof (event))) {
 			error = -EFAULT;
@@ -590,6 +585,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
 	new_timer->sigq->info.si_tid   = new_timer->it_id;
 	new_timer->sigq->info.si_code  = SI_TIMER;
 
+	if (copy_to_user(created_timer_id,
+			 &new_timer_id, sizeof (new_timer_id))) {
+		error = -EFAULT;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	error = CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer));
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
-- 
1.6.6

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