On 07/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Now that we can make the distinction use PIDTYPE_TGID rather than
> PIDTYPE_PID.
Wai, wait, this doesn't look right...
> There is no immediate effect as they point point at the
> same task,
How so? pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID) will return NULL unless this pid is actually
a group leader's pid,
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct
> pid *pid)
>
> for (;;) {
> rcu_read_lock();
> - p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
> + p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
> if (p)
> error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p);
So, currently kill(pid_nr) always works, even if pid_nr is a sub-thread's tid.
After this change kill(2) will always fail with -ESRCH in this case.
Or I am totally confused?
> --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
> @@ -347,12 +347,11 @@ int posix_timer_event(struct k_itimer *timr, int
> si_private)
> */
> timr->sigq->info.si_sys_private = si_private;
>
> + shared = !(timr->it_sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID);
> rcu_read_lock();
> - task = pid_task(timr->it_pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
> - if (task) {
> - shared = !(timr->it_sigev_notify & SIGEV_THREAD_ID);
> + task = pid_task(timr->it_pid, shared ? PIDTYPE_TGID : PIDTYPE_PID);
This looks fine, afaics without SIGEV_THREAD_ID ->it_pid is alwats task_tgid().
Oleg.
