[PATCH 4.4 60/68] posix_cpu_timer: Exit early when process has been reaped

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 08 2016 - 15:46:14 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 2c13ce8f6b2f6fd9ba2f9261b1939fc0f62d1307 upstream.

Variable "now" seems to be genuinely used unintialized
if branch

if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer->it_clock)) {

is not taken and branch

if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) {

is taken. In this case the process has been reaped and the timer is marked as
disarmed anyway. So none of the postprocessing of the sample is
required. Return right away.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707223911.GA26483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_get(struct k
timer->it.cpu.expires = 0;
sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock, timer->it.cpu.expires,
&itp->it_value);
+ return;
} else {
cpu_timer_sample_group(timer->it_clock, p, &now);
unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);