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sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks

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Hidehiro Kawai noticed that sched_setscheduler() can fail in
stop_machine: it calls sched_setscheduler() from insmod, which can
have CAP_SYS_MODULE without CAP_SYS_NICE.

Two cases could have failed, so are changed to sched_setscheduler_nocheck:
  kernel/softirq.c:cpu_callback()
	- CPU hotplug callback
  kernel/stop_machine.c:__stop_machine_run()
	- Called from various places, including modprobe()

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi.oshima.fk@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Rusty Russell 2008-06-23 13:55:38 +10:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
commit 961ccddd59
4 changed files with 40 additions and 14 deletions
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@ -1655,6 +1655,8 @@ extern int can_nice(const struct task_struct *p, const int nice);
extern int task_curr(const struct task_struct *p);
extern int idle_cpu(int cpu);
extern int sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *, int, struct sched_param *);
extern int sched_setscheduler_nocheck(struct task_struct *, int,
struct sched_param *);
extern struct task_struct *idle_task(int cpu);
extern struct task_struct *curr_task(int cpu);
extern void set_curr_task(int cpu, struct task_struct *p);