The patch titled Subject: ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix s/PIDTYPE_PID/PIDTYPE_TGID/, per Eric Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327195643.GA9366@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ipc/mqueue.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/ipc/mqueue.c~ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix +++ a/ipc/mqueue.c @@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ static void __do_notify(struct mqueue_in * bypass check_kill_permission(). It is from kernel * but si_fromuser() can't know this. */ - task = pid_task(info->notify_owner, PIDTYPE_PID); + task = pid_task(info->notify_owner, PIDTYPE_TGID); if (task) do_send_sig_info(info->notify.sigev_signo, &sig_i, task, PIDTYPE_TGID); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission.patch ipc-mqueuec-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill_permission-fix.patch aio-simplify-read_events.patch