The soft RLIMIT expiry code checks whether the soft limit is greater than the hard limit. That's pointless because if the soft RLIMIT is greater than the hard RLIMIT then that code cannot be reached as the hard RLIMIT check is before that and already killed the process.
Remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> --- V2: Fixup vs. the previous patch changes --- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -814,15 +814,14 @@ static void check_thread_timers(struct t __group_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk); return; } + if (rtim >= soft) { /* * At the soft limit, send a SIGXCPU every second. */ - if (soft < hard) { - soft += USEC_PER_SEC; - tsk->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTTIME].rlim_cur = - soft; - } + soft += USEC_PER_SEC; + tsk->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTTIME].rlim_cur = soft; + if (print_fatal_signals) { pr_info("RT Watchdog Timeout (soft): %s[%d]\n", tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk)); @@ -938,10 +937,9 @@ static void check_process_timers(struct tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk)); } __group_send_sig_info(SIGXCPU, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk); - if (soft < hard) { - sig->rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_cur = soft + 1; - softns += NSEC_PER_SEC; - } + + sig->rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_cur = soft + 1; + softns += NSEC_PER_SEC; } /* Update the expiry cache */