linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] timer: check failure of timer_cpu_notify() before calling init_timer

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Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:15:21 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fweisbec@...il.com, tj@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] timer: check failure of timer_cpu_notify() before calling init_timer_stats()

timer_cpu_notify() should return NOTIFY_OK and nothing else. Anything else would
trigger a BUG_ON(). Return value of this routine is already checked correctly
but is done after issuing a call to init_timer_stats(). The right order would be
to check the error case first and then call init_timer_stats(). Lets do it.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/timer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index f64a98c..e8e7839 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1674,9 +1674,9 @@ void __init init_timers(void)
 
 	err = timer_cpu_notify(&timers_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_UP_PREPARE,
 			       (void *)(long)smp_processor_id());
-	init_timer_stats();
-
 	BUG_ON(err != NOTIFY_OK);
+
+	init_timer_stats();
 	register_cpu_notifier(&timers_nb);
 	open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq);
 }
-- 
1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e

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