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posix-cpu-timers: Make set_process_cpu_timer() more robust

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Because the return value of cpu_timer_sample_group() is not checked,
compilers and static checkers can legitimately warn about a potential use
of the uninitialized variable 'now'. This is not a runtime issue as all call
sites hand in valid clock ids.

Also cpu_timer_sample_group() is invoked unconditionally even when the
result is not used because *oldval is NULL.

Make the invocation conditional and check the return value.

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Signed-off-by: Max R. P. Grossmann <m@max.pm>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108190157.10048-1-m@max.pm
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Max R. P. Grossmann 2018-01-08 20:01:57 +01:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 103bb56a28
commit a9445e47d8
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kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
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@ -1189,9 +1189,8 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx,
u64 now;
WARN_ON_ONCE(clock_idx == CPUCLOCK_SCHED);
cpu_timer_sample_group(clock_idx, tsk, &now);
if (oldval) {
if (oldval && cpu_timer_sample_group(clock_idx, tsk, &now) != -EINVAL) {
/*
* We are setting itimer. The *oldval is absolute and we update
* it to be relative, *newval argument is relative and we update