Re: [patch V2 2/6] posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression

[Frederic Weisbecker]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>