[PATCH 0/1] powerpc/vdso: remove redundant locking in update_vsyscall_tz()

[Shan Hai]

The locking in update_vsyscall_tz() is not only unnecessary because the vdso
code copies the data unproteced in __kernel_gettimeofday() but also
introduces a hard to reproduce race condition between update_vsyscall()
and update_vsyscall_tz(), which causes user space process to loop
forever in vdso code.

The following patch removes the locking from update_vsyscall_tz().

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 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c |    5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

Thanks
Shan Hai
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