The patch titled posix-cpu-timers: initialize new_itimer->it.cpu.firing has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is posix-cpu-timers-initialize-new_itimer-itcpufiring.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: posix-cpu-timers: initialize new_itimer->it.cpu.firing From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> In case when posix_cpu_timer_create() is called from sys_timer_create() it.cpu.firing field of struct k_itimer is uninitialized. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c~posix-cpu-timers-initialize-new_itimer-itcpufiring kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c~posix-cpu-timers-initialize-new_itimer-itcpufiring +++ a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itim INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry); new_timer->it.cpu.incr.sched = 0; new_timer->it.cpu.expires.sched = 0; + new_timer->it.cpu.firing = 0; read_lock(&tasklist_lock); if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are itimers-fix-racy-writes-to-cpu_itimer-fields.patch posix-cpu-timers-initialize-new_itimer-itcpufiring.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html