From d02479bdeb1c9b037892061cdcf4e730183391fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:01:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] posix-timers: fix creation race sys_timer_create() sets ->it_process and unlocks ->siglock, then checks tmr->it_sigev_notify to define if get_task_struct() is needed. We already passed ->it_id to the caller, another thread can delete this timer and free its memory in between. As a minimal fix, move this code under ->siglock, sys_timer_delete() takes it too before calling release_posix_timer(). A proper serialization would be to take ->it_lock, we add a partly initialized timer on posix_timers_id, not good. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed