posix-cpu-timers: Rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call

Commit 4221a9918e38b7494cee341dda7b7b4bb8c04bde "Add RCU check for
find_task_by_vpid()" introduced rcu_lockdep_assert to find_task_by_pid_ns.
Add rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock to call find_task_by_vpid.

Tetsuo Handa wrote:
| Quoting from one of posts in that thead
| http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/2/8/4536388
|
|| Usually tasklist gives enough protection, but if copy_process() fails
|| it calls free_pid() lockless and does call_rcu(delayed_put_pid().
|| This means, without rcu lock find_pid_ns() can't scan the hash table
|| safely.

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
| We can remove the tasklist_lock while at it. rcu_read_lock is enough.

Patch also replaces thread_group_leader with has_group_leader_pid
in accordance to comment by Oleg Nesterov:

| ... thread_group_leader() check is not relaible without 
| tasklist. If we race with de_thread() find_task_by_vpid() can find
| the new leader before it updates its ->group_leader.
|
| perhaps it makes sense to change posix_cpu_timer_create() to use 
| has_group_leader_pid() instead, just to make this code not look racy
| and avoid adding new problems.


Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101103165256.GD30053@swordfish.minsk.epam.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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