The patch titled Use find_task_by_vpid in posix timers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is use-find_task_by_vpid-in-posix-timers.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Use find_task_by_vpid in posix timers From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> All the functions that need to lookup a task by pid in posix timers obtain this pid from a user space, and thus this value refers to a task in the same namespace, as the current task lives in. So the proper behavior is to call find_task_by_vpid() here. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 8 ++++---- kernel/posix-timers.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c~use-find_task_by_vpid-in-posix-timers kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c~use-find_task_by_vpid-in-posix-timers +++ a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static int check_clock(const clockid_t w return 0; read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - p = find_task_by_pid(pid); + p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (!p || !(CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) ? same_thread_group(p, current) : thread_group_leader(p))) { error = -EINVAL; @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ int posix_cpu_clock_get(const clockid_t */ struct task_struct *p; rcu_read_lock(); - p = find_task_by_pid(pid); + p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (p) { if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock)) { if (same_thread_group(p, current)) { @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itim if (pid == 0) { p = current; } else { - p = find_task_by_pid(pid); + p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (p && !same_thread_group(p, current)) p = NULL; } @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itim if (pid == 0) { p = current->group_leader; } else { - p = find_task_by_pid(pid); + p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (p && !thread_group_leader(p)) p = NULL; } diff -puN kernel/posix-timers.c~use-find_task_by_vpid-in-posix-timers kernel/posix-timers.c --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c~use-find_task_by_vpid-in-posix-timers +++ a/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static struct task_struct * good_sigeven struct task_struct *rtn = current->group_leader; if ((event->sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID ) && - (!(rtn = find_task_by_pid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id)) || + (!(rtn = find_task_by_vpid(event->sigev_notify_thread_id)) || !same_thread_group(rtn, current) || (event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) != 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