From 2cd499e38ec241691e4bce50bddc8f57e4cc9bd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:42:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] posix-timers: sys_timer_create: remove the buggy PF_EXITING check sys_timer_create() return -EINVAL if the target thread has PF_EXITING. This doesn't really make sense, the sub-thread can die right after unlock. And in fact, this is just wrong. Without SIGEV_THREAD_ID good_sigevent() returns ->group_leader, and it is very possible that the leader is already dead. This is OK, we shouldn't return the error in this case. Remove this check and the comment. Note that the "process" was found under tasklist_lock, it must have ->sighand != NULL. Also, remove a couple of unneeded initializations. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-format-patch failed