Re: [PATCH] posix-timers: Target group sigqueue to current task only if not exiting

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Nov 23 2024 - 05:13:48 EST


On 11/23, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> - * the same thread group as the target process, which avoids
> - * unnecessarily waking up a potentially idle task.
> + * the same thread group as the target process and its sighand is
> + * stable, which avoids unnecessarily waking up a potentially idle task.
> */
> static inline struct task_struct *posixtimer_get_target(struct k_itimer *tmr)
> {
> struct task_struct *t = pid_task(tmr->it_pid, tmr->it_pid_type);
>
> - if (t && tmr->it_pid_type != PIDTYPE_PID && same_thread_group(t, current))
> + if (t && tmr->it_pid_type != PIDTYPE_PID &&
> + same_thread_group(t, current) && !current->exit_state)
> t = current;

Thanks!

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>