Use find_task_by_vpid in posix timers

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 <[email protected]> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
kishon · Feb 8, 2008 · 8dc86af · 8dc86af
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diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static int check_clock(const clockid_t which_clock)
 		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 which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 		 */
 		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)) {
@@ -354,15 +354,15 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 		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;
 		}
 	} else {
 		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 --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static struct task_struct * good_sigevent(sigevent_t * event)
 	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) != SIGEV_SIGNAL))
 		return NULL;