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posix-cpu-timers: Ensure set_process_cpu_timer is always evaluated
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Commit a9445e4 ("posix-cpu-timers: Make set_process_cpu_timer()
more robust") moved the check into the 'if' statement. Unfortunately,
it did so on the right side of an && which means that it may get short
circuited and never evaluated. This is easily reproduced with:

$ cat loop.c
void main() {
  struct rlimit res;
  /* set the CPU time limit */
  getrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU,&res);
  res.rlim_cur = 2;
  res.rlim_max = 2;
  setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU,&res);

  while (1);
}

Which will hang forever instead of being killed. Fix this by pulling the
evaluation out of the if statement but checking the return value instead.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568337
Fixes: a9445e4 ("posix-cpu-timers: Make set_process_cpu_timer() more robust")
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Max R . P . Grossmann" <m@max.pm>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180417215742.2521-1-labbott@redhat.com
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Laura Abbott authored and Thomas Gleixner committed Apr 19, 2018
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
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Expand Up @@ -1205,10 +1205,12 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int clock_idx,
u64 *newval, u64 *oldval)
{
u64 now;
int ret;

WARN_ON_ONCE(clock_idx == CPUCLOCK_SCHED);
ret = cpu_timer_sample_group(clock_idx, tsk, &now);

if (oldval && cpu_timer_sample_group(clock_idx, tsk, &now) != -EINVAL) {
if (oldval && ret != -EINVAL) {
/*
* We are setting itimer. The *oldval is absolute and we update
* it to be relative, *newval argument is relative and we update
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