linux-kernel - [patch 10/44] posix-cpu-timers: Use common permission check in posix_cpu_timer

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:31:51 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: [patch 10/44] posix-cpu-timers: Use common permission check in
 posix_cpu_timer_create()

Yet another copy of the same thing gone...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c |   35 +++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -316,44 +316,15 @@ static int posix_cpu_clock_get(const clo
  */
 static int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
-	const pid_t pid = CPUCLOCK_PID(new_timer->it_clock);
-	struct task_struct *p;
+	struct task_struct *p = get_task_for_clock(new_timer->it_clock);
 
-	if (CPUCLOCK_WHICH(new_timer->it_clock) >= CPUCLOCK_MAX)
+	if (!p)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	new_timer->kclock = &clock_posix_cpu;
-
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry);
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) {
-		if (pid == 0) {
-			p = current;
-		} else {
-			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_vpid(pid);
-			if (p && !has_group_leader_pid(p))
-				p = NULL;
-		}
-	}
 	new_timer->it.cpu.task = p;
-	if (p) {
-		get_task_struct(p);
-	} else {
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*