The reasons why the extra posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() invocation has been added are not entirely clear from the commit message. Today all that posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() does is stop timers that are tracking the task from firing. Every other operation on those timers is still allowed. The practical implication of this is posix_cpu_timer_del() which could not get the siglock after the thread group leader has exited (because sighand == NULL) would be able to run successfully because the timer was already dequeued. With that locking issue fixed there is no point in disabling all of the timers. So remove this ``tempoary'' hack. Fixes: e0a70217107e ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87o8tityzs.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
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