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Commit f01b1b0b authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent b36bbb6c
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