From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 22:39:11 +0000 (+0300) Subject: posix_cpu_timer: Exit early when process has been reaped X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c13ce8f6b2f6fd9ba2f9261b1939fc0f62d1307;p=linux-beck.git posix_cpu_timer: Exit early when process has been reaped 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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707223911.GA26483@p183.telecom.by Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 1cafba860b08..39008d78927a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timer, struct itimerspec *itp) 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);