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SubjectRe: [patch 05/44] posix-cpu-timers: Sanitize bogus WARNONS
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:31:46PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Warning when p == NULL and then proceeding and dereferencing p does not
> make any sense as the kernel will crash with a NULL pointer dereference
> right away.
>
> Bailing out when p == NULL and returning an error code does not cure the
> underlying problem which caused p to be NULL. Though it might allow to
> do proper debugging.
>
> Same applies to the clock id check in set_process_cpu_timer().
>
> Clean them up and make them return without trying to do further damage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

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