posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks

Deactivation of the expiry cache is done by setting all clock caches to
0. That requires to have a check for zero in all places which update the
expiry cache:

	if (cache == 0 || new < cache)
		cache = new;

Use U64_MAX as the deactivated value, which allows to remove the zero
checks when updating the cache and reduces it to the obvious check:

	if (new < cache)
		cache = new;

This also removes the weird workaround in do_prlimit() which was required
to convert a RLIMIT_CPU value of 0 (immediate expiry) to 1 because handing
in 0 to the posix CPU timer code would have effectively disarmed it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192922.275086128@linutronix.de

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index c578b75d7923..2462aa84247f 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1557,15 +1557,6 @@ int do_prlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource,
 			retval = -EPERM;
 		if (!retval)
 			retval = security_task_setrlimit(tsk, resource, new_rlim);
-		if (resource == RLIMIT_CPU && new_rlim->rlim_cur == 0) {
-			/*
-			 * The caller is asking for an immediate RLIMIT_CPU
-			 * expiry.  But we use the zero value to mean "it was
-			 * never set".  So let's cheat and make it one second
-			 * instead
-			 */
-			new_rlim->rlim_cur = 1;
-		}
 	}
 	if (!retval) {
 		if (old_rlim)