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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-06-23 13:55:38 +1000 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-06-23 22:57:56 +0200 |
commit | 961ccddd59d627b89bd3dc284b6517833bbdf25d (patch) | |
tree | 4d755085845b8beeaa0bbc3d3ee66e1ccc4156a8 /kernel/stop_machine.c | |
parent | 481c5346d0981940ee63037eb53e4e37b0735c10 (diff) | |
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sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/stop_machine.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c index b7350bbfb076..ba9b2054ecbd 100644 --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ struct task_struct *__stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 }; /* One high-prio thread per cpu. We'll do this one. */ - sched_setscheduler(p, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); kthread_bind(p, cpu); wake_up_process(p); wait_for_completion(&smdata.done); |