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authorAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>2010-07-20 15:23:14 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-07-23 15:08:12 +0200
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posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create()
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). Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/posix-timers.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-timers.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index ad723420acc3..9ca4973f736d 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -560,11 +560,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
new_timer->it_clock = which_clock;
new_timer->it_overrun = -1;
- if (copy_to_user(created_timer_id,
- &new_timer_id, sizeof (new_timer_id))) {
- error = -EFAULT;
- goto out;
- }
if (timer_event_spec) {
if (copy_from_user(&event, timer_event_spec, sizeof (event))) {
error = -EFAULT;
@@ -590,6 +585,12 @@ 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;
+ if (copy_to_user(created_timer_id,
+ &new_timer_id, sizeof (new_timer_id))) {
+ error = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
error = CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer));
if (error)
goto out;