| Date | Mon, 5 Jun 2023 16:32:13 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/20] posix-timers: Fixes and cleanups |
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Le Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 08:48:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : > Hi! > > A recent syzcaller/KCSAN report about a data race and an actually broken > loop termination due to that race made me look deeper into the posix timer > code. > > Aside of the loop termination issue this unearthed another issue in the > exit() path where timer deletion might livelock on RT enabled kernels. > > While going through the code with a fine comb, I stumbled over another > place which needs READ/WRITE_ONCE() annotations, tons of outdated and/or > uncomprehensible comments and a bunch of silly code. > > The series has therefore a larger set of cleanups on top of the two fixes. > > It is based on > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers/core > > and also availble from git: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git timers/posix > > Thanks, > > tglx
Thanks for this extremely useful series!
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