Commit 72786ff2 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner

posix-timers: Set k_itimer:: It_signal to NULL on exit()

Technically it's not required to set k_itimer::it_signal to NULL on exit()
because there is no other thread anymore which could lookup the timer
concurrently.

Set it to NULL for consistency sake and add a comment to that effect.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230425183313.196462644@linutronix.de
parent 028cf5ea
......@@ -1101,6 +1101,14 @@ static void itimer_delete(struct k_itimer *timer)
}
list_del(&timer->list);
/*
* Setting timer::it_signal to NULL is technically not required
* here as nothing can access the timer anymore legitimately via
* the hash table. Set it to NULL nevertheless so that all deletion
* paths are consistent.
*/
WRITE_ONCE(timer->it_signal, NULL);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timer->it_lock, flags);
release_posix_timer(timer, IT_ID_SET);
}
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