linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] posix-cpu-timers: initialize new

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Message-Id: <1253802903-979-2-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:35:03 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] posix-cpu-timers: initialize new_itimer->it.cpu.firing

In case when posix_cpu_timer_create() is called from sys_timer_create()
it.cpu.firing field of struct k_itimer is uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 5c9dc22..e73a386 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry);
 	new_timer->it.cpu.incr.sched = 0;
 	new_timer->it.cpu.expires.sched = 0;
+	new_timer->it.cpu.firing = 0;
 
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) {
-- 
1.6.2.5

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