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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2005-06-28 20:44:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-28 21:20:30 -0700
commitf01b1b0baa454825ed95c28d2a6a71bbf4510836 (patch)
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parentb36bbb6c3d5244eaf52241ec69f79494137f2db0 (diff)
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[PATCH] ITIMER_REAL: fix possible deadlock and race
As Steven Rostedt pointed out, there are 2 problems with ITIMER_REAL timers. 1. do_setitimer() does not call del_timer_sync() in case when the timer is not pending (it_real_value() returns 0). This is wrong, the timer may still be running, and it can rearm itself. 2. It calls del_timer_sync() with tsk->sighand->siglock held. This is deadlockable, because timer's handler needs this lock too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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