From 961ccddd59d627b89bd3dc284b6517833bbdf25d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:38 +1000 Subject: 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 Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: sugita Cc: Satoshi OSHIMA Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index c5d3f847ca8d..fe3b9b5d7390 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -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); -- cgit v1.2.3