linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] posix_timer: remove wrong comment

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Date:	Mon, 17 May 2010 21:18:06 +0400
From:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] posix_timer: remove wrong comment

currently "The next step is hard to back out if there is an error."
comment is not right, release_posix_timer() does put_pid().

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
---
 kernel/posix-timers.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 00d1fda..5555e7c 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -563,10 +563,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
 
-	/*
-	 * return the timer_id now.  The next step is hard to
-	 * back out if there is an error.
-	 */
 	if (copy_to_user(created_timer_id,
 			 &new_timer_id, sizeof (new_timer_id))) {
 		error = -EFAULT;
-- 
1.6.6

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