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Subject[RFC, 2.6.26.2-rc1] posix timers: timer_delete: remove the bogus "->it_process != NULL" check
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It is an RFC for sending this patch for stable, when this patch needed, then send ACK and CC stable,
if not then send NAK.

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From 4b7a1304267bff68260ae861784b27130e805be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] posix timers: timer_delete: remove the bogus "->it_process != NULL" check

[ Upstream commit 4b7a1304267bff68260ae861784b27130e805be3 ]

sys_timer_delete() and itimer_delete() check "timer->it_process != NULL",
this looks completely bogus. ->it_process == NULL means that this timer
is already under destruction or it is not fully initialized, this must not
happen.

sys_timer_delete: the timer is locked, and lock_timer() can't succeed
if ->it_process == NULL.

itimer_delete: it is called by exit_itimers() when there are no other
threads which can play with signal_struct->posix_timers.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index dbd8398..17f5326 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -856,11 +856,10 @@ retry_delete:
* This keeps any tasks waiting on the spin lock from thinking
* they got something (see the lock code above).
*/
- if (timer->it_process) {
- if (timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID))
- put_task_struct(timer->it_process);
- timer->it_process = NULL;
- }
+ if (timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID))
+ put_task_struct(timer->it_process);
+ timer->it_process = NULL;
+
unlock_timer(timer, flags);
release_posix_timer(timer, IT_ID_SET);
return 0;
@@ -885,11 +884,10 @@ retry_delete:
* This keeps any tasks waiting on the spin lock from thinking
* they got something (see the lock code above).
*/
- if (timer->it_process) {
- if (timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID))
- put_task_struct(timer->it_process);
- timer->it_process = NULL;
- }
+ if (timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID))
+ put_task_struct(timer->it_process);
+ timer->it_process = NULL;
+
unlock_timer(timer, flags);
release_posix_timer(timer, IT_ID_SET);
}

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