4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> commit 2c13ce8f6b2f6fd9ba2f9261b1939fc0f62d1307 upstream. Variable "now" seems to be genuinely used unintialized if branch if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(timer->it_clock)) { is not taken and branch if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) { is taken. In this case the process has been reaped and the timer is marked as disarmed anyway. So none of the postprocessing of the sample is required. Return right away. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160707223911.GA26483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ static void posix_cpu_timer_get(struct k timer->it.cpu.expires = 0; sample_to_timespec(timer->it_clock, timer->it.cpu.expires, &itp->it_value); + return; } else { cpu_timer_sample_group(timer->it_clock, p, &now); unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html