linux-kernel - [009/200] posix_timer: Fix error path in timer

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Message-Id: <20100701174247.194833917@clark.site>
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:41:39 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [009/200] posix_timer: Fix error path in timer_create

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

------------------

From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>

commit 45e0fffc8a7778282e6a1514a6ae3e7ae6545111 upstream.

Move CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer)) after all
posible EFAULT erros.

*_timer_create may allocate/get resources.
(for example posix_cpu_timer_create does get_task_struct)

[ tglx: fold the remove crappy comment patch into this ]

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 kernel/posix-timers.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -559,14 +559,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const cloc
 	new_timer->it_id = (timer_t) new_timer_id;
 	new_timer->it_clock = which_clock;
 	new_timer->it_overrun = -1;
-	error = CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer));
-	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;
@@ -597,6 +590,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const cloc
 	new_timer->sigq->info.si_tid   = new_timer->it_id;
 	new_timer->sigq->info.si_code  = SI_TIMER;
 
+	error = CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer));
+	if (error)
+		goto out;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	new_timer->it_signal = current->signal;
 	list_add(&new_timer->list, &current->signal->posix_timers);


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