[PATCH] cygwin: timer_delete: Fix return value

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 23 11:29:26 GMT 2024


On Oct 23 12:43, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > On Oct 12 18:58, Christian Franke wrote:
> > > Nobody checks the return value of functions which only free resources:
> > > close(), ..., timer_delete(), ... :-)
> > Sigh.  Apparently I broke it in 2019, see commit 229ea3f23c015.
> > 
> > >  From 2d0c5b53bba2ded8d85ed725774498cffbb4f1de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Christian Franke<christian.franke@t-online.de>
> > > Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:47:00 +0200
> > > Subject: [PATCH] cygwin: timer_delete: Fix return value
> > > 
> > > timer_delete() always returned failure.  This issue has been
> > > detected by 'stress-ng --hrtimers 1'.
> > > 
> > Please add
> > 
> >    Fixes: 229ea3f23c015 ("Cygwin: posix timers: reimplement using OS timer")
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Franke<christian.franke@t-online.de>
> > > ---
> > >   winsup/cygwin/posix_timer.cc | 1 +
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix_timer.cc b/winsup/cygwin/posix_timer.cc
> > > index 9d832f201..a336b2bc2 100644
> > > --- a/winsup/cygwin/posix_timer.cc
> > > +++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix_timer.cc
> > > @@ -530,6 +530,7 @@ timer_delete (timer_t timerid)
> > >   	  __leave;
> > >   	}
> > >         delete in_tt;
> > > +      ret = 0;
> > >       }
> > >     __except (EFAULT) {}
> > >     __endtry
> > > -- 
> > > 2.45.1
> > > 
> > Also add an entry for the release/3.5.5 file, please.
> 
> Attached.
> 

Pushed.

Thanks,
Corinna


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