commit 961ccddd59d627b89bd3dc284b6517833bbdf25d
author Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Mon Jun 23 13:55:38 2008 +1000
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Mon Jun 23 22:57:56 2008 +0200
tree 4d755085845b8beeaa0bbc3d3ee66e1ccc4156a8
parent 481c5346d0981940ee63037eb53e4e37b0735c10

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>

kernel/stop_machine.c

diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index b7350bb..ba9b205 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
 		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, &param);
+		sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
 		kthread_bind(p, cpu);
 		wake_up_process(p);
 		wait_for_completion(&smdata.done);