Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2025-11-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix a race in timer->function clearing in timer_shutdown_sync()

 - Fix a timekeeper sysfs-setup resource leak in error paths

 - Fix the NOHZ report_idle_softirq() syslog rate-limiting
   logic to have no side effects on the return value

* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-11-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync()
  timekeeping: Fix resource leak in tk_aux_sysfs_init() error paths
  tick/sched: Fix bogus condition in report_idle_softirq()

Author: torvalds

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -1152,16 +1152,15 @@ static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
 			return false;
 	}
 
-	if (ratelimit >= 10)
-		return false;
-
 	/* On RT, softirq handling may be waiting on some lock */
 	if (local_bh_blocked())
 		return false;
 
-	pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
-		pending);
-	ratelimit++;
+	if (ratelimit < 10) {
+		pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
+			pending);
+		ratelimit++;
+	}
 
 	return true;
 }

kernel/time/timekeeping.c

@@ -3060,29 +3060,32 @@ static const struct attribute_group aux_clock_enable_attr_group = {
 static int __init tk_aux_sysfs_init(void)
 {
 	struct kobject *auxo, *tko = kobject_create_and_add("time", kernel_kobj);
+	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (!tko)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return ret;
 
 	auxo = kobject_create_and_add("aux_clocks", tko);
-	if (!auxo) {
-		kobject_put(tko);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	if (!auxo)
+		goto err_clean;
 
 	for (int i = 0; i < MAX_AUX_CLOCKS; i++) {
 		char id[2] = { [0] = '0' + i, };
 		struct kobject *clk = kobject_create_and_add(id, auxo);
 
 		if (!clk)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		int ret = sysfs_create_group(clk, &aux_clock_enable_attr_group);
+			goto err_clean;
 
+		ret = sysfs_create_group(clk, &aux_clock_enable_attr_group);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto err_clean;
 	}
 	return 0;
+
+err_clean:
+	kobject_put(auxo);
+	kobject_put(tko);
+	return ret;
 }
 late_initcall(tk_aux_sysfs_init);
 

kernel/time/timer.c

@@ -1458,10 +1458,11 @@ static int __try_to_del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer, bool shutdown)
 
 	base = lock_timer_base(timer, &flags);
 
-	if (base->running_timer != timer)
+	if (base->running_timer != timer) {
 		ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
-	if (shutdown)
-		timer->function = NULL;
+		if (shutdown)
+			timer->function = NULL;
+	}
 
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock, flags);