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

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/18, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 21:18:08 +0400
> Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> I'm not sure what for Oleg want that change, I'm not seeing any value of
> it. I think patch should be dropped.

I didn't mean this change is really needed. I just wanted to clarify
that currently the comment is wrong.

But. Now that we move CLOCK_DISPATCH() down, it becomes correct again:
we report created_timer_id to user-space despite the fact timer_create()
can fail later. This _perhaps_ means it makes sense to preserve the
comment and move the copy_to_user() block down, before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
just to make the code more readable/understandable.

But I agree with either way you and Andrey prefer. And I believe 2/3
should fix the problem correctly.

Oleg.

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