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posix_timer: Fix error path in timer_create 

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@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Andrey Vagin 2010-05-24 12:15:33 -07:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 174bd1994e
commit 45e0fffc8a
1 changed files with 4 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -559,14 +559,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
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 clockid_t, which_clock,
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);