From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Changing the sequence count in update_vsyscall_tz() is completely
pointless.
The vdso code copies the data unprotected. There is no point to change
this as sys_tz is nowhere protected at all. See sys_gettimeofday().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 5 -----
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 0a7dc13..c378a18 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -58,12 +58,7 @@ DEFINE_VVAR(struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) =
void update_vsyscall_tz(void)
{
- unsigned long flags;
-
- write_seqlock_irqsave(&vsyscall_gtod_data.lock, flags);
- /* sys_tz has changed */
vsyscall_gtod_data.sys_tz = sys_tz;
- write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&vsyscall_gtod_data.lock, flags);
}
void update_vsyscall(struct timespec *wall_time, struct timespec *wtm,
--
1.7.8.3
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