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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2014-05-09 10:49:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-06-11 11:54:10 -0700 |
| commit | 5c246e46261532ccac530536336143171ce2d641 (patch) | |
| tree | a93b944d1fb4e11fc66743dddb6a131f7c3d2486 /kernel | |
| parent | f6f465b98ae033f1f57179e2c4649b7d29d5af8e (diff) | |
sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0
commit dbdb22754fde671dc93d2fae06f8be113d47f2fb upstream.
The scheduler uses policy=-1 to preserve the current policy state to
implement sys_sched_setparam(), this got exposed to userspace by
accident through sys_sched_setattr(), cure this.
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140509085311.GJ30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/core.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index f5c6635b806..dbe44b5c02f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3683,6 +3683,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr, if (sched_copy_attr(uattr, &attr)) return -EFAULT; + if (attr.sched_policy < 0) + return -EINVAL; + rcu_read_lock(); retval = -ESRCH; p = find_process_by_pid(pid); |