Re: [RT BUG] Mismatched get_uid/free_uid usage in signals in some rts (2nd try)

[Joe Korty]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2022-06-26 08:30:19 [-0400], Joe Korty wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> > Absent an actual test of your port of a99e09659e6c to 4.9-rt, I just
> > eye-verified that the change it makes to sigqueue_free_current looks
> > correct.  In detail,
> >
> >   matches the same change the Linus patch makes to __sigqueue_free (ie,
> >   to the routine that sigqueue_free_current is a copy of).
> >
> >   That the new variable 'up', in sigqueue_free_current, is being used
> >   in the patch (some variants of this fix do not have 'up'), and that
> >   variable is present in 4.9's version of sigqueue_free_current.
> >
> >   That atomic_dec_and_test, rather than the refcounting version of that
> >   some function, is being used (some versions of this patch are refcounted
> >   instead).
> 
> What is the status here? Is this still needed?

Hi Sebastian,
I just verified that 4.9.319-rt195 has this fix.
Regards,
Joe