linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] compat_sys_clock_nanosleep: fix *rmtp handling for -EINTR case

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Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:35:14 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...ru>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Toyo Abe <toyoa@...sta.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] compat_sys_clock_nanosleep: fix *rmtp handling for -EINTR case

Andrew, please ignore this patch.

It is wrong for the same reason as "PATCH 1/5".

Oleg.

On 02/01, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> COMPLETELY UNTESTED.
> 
> compat_sys_clock_nanosleep() update rmtp only if err == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK.
> This is wrong, nanosleep() can return -EINTR if flags & TIMER_ABSTIME.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
> 
> --- MM/kernel/compat.c~4_COMPAT_CLOCK	2008-02-01 14:50:01.000000000 +0300
> +++ MM/kernel/compat.c	2008-02-01 15:05:28.000000000 +0300
> @@ -618,8 +618,7 @@ static long compat_clock_nanosleep_resta
>  	err = clock_nanosleep_restart(restart);
>  	set_fs(oldfs);
>  
> -	if ((err == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK) && rmtp &&
> -	    put_compat_timespec(&tu, rmtp))
> +	if (err && rmtp && put_compat_timespec(&tu, rmtp))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	if (err == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK) {
> @@ -648,8 +647,7 @@ long compat_sys_clock_nanosleep(clockid_
>  				  (struct timespec __user *) &out);
>  	set_fs(oldfs);
>  
> -	if ((err == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK) && rmtp &&
> -	    put_compat_timespec(&out, rmtp))
> +	if (err && rmtp && put_compat_timespec(&out, rmtp))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	if (err == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK) {

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