Re: [PATCH 1/3] posix-timers: don't switch to ->group_leader if ->it_process dies

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>]

On 08/03, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> The key thing that the old code does it to drop the ref to the old task as
> soon as it notices.

I thought about this too. But, again, this doesn't actually work. And it is
very easy to pin the dead task_struct. The user can just create the
SIGEV_THREAD_ID timer and kill the sub-thread (->it_process). Without
calling timer_settime() the timer can't notice the death.

(just in case, please note that the next patch doesn't make things worse,
 when ->group_leader dies the timer should be destroyed soon).

> It may be worthwhile to do that in the case where
> send_sigqueue fails.

I think it is better to convert the posix timers to use "struct pid*" instead
of "struct task_struct*". This change looks more or less straightforward, and
it should fix the problem.

Oleg.