Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 2019 17:13:43 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [patch V2 2/6] posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression |
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 11:15:08PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > + if (gettime) { > + /* > + * For clock_gettime(PROCESS) the task does not need to be > + * the actual group leader. tsk->sighand gives > + * access to the group's clock. > + * > + * Timers need the group leader because they take a > + * reference on it and store the task pointer until the > + * timer is destroyed.
Well, that would work with a non group leader as well but anyway that wouldn't be pretty.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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