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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] posix_timer: move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:23:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100518142336.GA4818@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100518085314.1817d64a@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com>

On 05/18, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 21:18:08 +0400
> Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> wrote:
>
> > According to Oleg Nesterov:
> > We can move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down after
> > "if (timer_event_spec)" block too. (but before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
> > of course).
>
> I'm not sure what for Oleg want that change, I'm not seeing any value of
> it. I think patch should be dropped.

I didn't mean this change is really needed. I just wanted to clarify
that currently the comment is wrong.

But. Now that we move CLOCK_DISPATCH() down, it becomes correct again:
we report created_timer_id to user-space despite the fact timer_create()
can fail later. This _perhaps_ means it makes sense to preserve the
comment and move the copy_to_user() block down, before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
just to make the code more readable/understandable.

But I agree with either way you and Andrey prefer. And I believe 2/3
should fix the problem correctly.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 17:18 [PATCH 1/3] posix_timer: remove wrong comment Andrey Vagin
2010-05-17 17:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] posix_timer: fix error path in timer_create Andrey Vagin
2010-05-17 17:18   ` [PATCH 3/3] posix_timer: move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down " Andrey Vagin
2010-05-18  6:53     ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-05-18 14:23       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-05-18  6:49   ` [PATCH 2/3] posix_timer: fix error path " Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-05-20 19:31   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-20 20:46     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-18  6:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] posix_timer: remove wrong comment Stanislaw Gruszka
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-17 13:41 Andrey Vagin
2010-05-17 13:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] posix_timer: fix error path in timer_create Andrey Vagin
2010-05-17 13:41   ` [PATCH 3/3] posix_timer: move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down " Andrey Vagin

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