The timerfd was using the unlocked waitqueue operations, but it was
using a different lock, so poll_wait() would race with it. This patch
makes timerfd directly use the waitqueue lock.


Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


- Davide


Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/timerfd.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/timerfd.c     2007-05-18 11:11:09.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/timerfd.c  2007-05-18 11:11:16.000000000 -0700
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 struct timerfd_ctx {
        struct hrtimer tmr;
        ktime_t tintv;
-       spinlock_t lock;
        wait_queue_head_t wqh;
        int expired;
 };
@@ -39,10 +38,10 @@
        struct timerfd_ctx *ctx = container_of(htmr, struct timerfd_ctx, tmr);
        unsigned long flags;
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
        ctx->expired = 1;
        wake_up_locked(&ctx->wqh);
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
 
        return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
 }
@@ -83,10 +82,10 @@
 
        poll_wait(file, &ctx->wqh, wait);
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
        if (ctx->expired)
                events |= POLLIN;
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->wqh.lock, flags);
 
        return events;
 }
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@
 
        if (count < sizeof(ticks))
                return -EINVAL;
-       spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+       spin_lock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
        res = -EAGAIN;
        if (!ctx->expired && !(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) {
                __add_wait_queue(&ctx->wqh, &wait);
@@ -115,9 +114,9 @@
                                res = -ERESTARTSYS;
                                break;
                        }
-                       spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+                       spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
                        schedule();
-                       spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+                       spin_lock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
                }
                __remove_wait_queue(&ctx->wqh, &wait);
                __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
@@ -139,7 +138,7 @@
                } else
                        ticks = 1;
        }
-       spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+       spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
        if (ticks)
                res = put_user(ticks, buf) ? -EFAULT: sizeof(ticks);
        return res;
@@ -176,7 +175,6 @@
                        return -ENOMEM;
 
                init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->wqh);
-               spin_lock_init(&ctx->lock);
 
                timerfd_setup(ctx, clockid, flags, &ktmr);
 
@@ -202,10 +200,10 @@
                 * it to the new values.
                 */
                for (;;) {
-                       spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+                       spin_lock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
                        if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&ctx->tmr) >= 0)
                                break;
-                       spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+                       spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
                        cpu_relax();
                }
                /*
@@ -213,7 +211,7 @@
                 */
                timerfd_setup(ctx, clockid, flags, &ktmr);
 
-               spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+               spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
                fput(file);
        }
 

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