[PATCH] genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

From: Thomas Pfaff <tpf...@pcs.com>

In commit ee23871389 ("genirq: Set irq thread to RT priority on
creation") we moved the assigment of the thread's priority from the
thread's function into __setup_irq(). That function may run in user
context for instance if the user opens an UART node and then driver
calls requests in the ->open() callback. That user may not have
CAP_SYS_NICE and so the irq thread won't run with the SCHED_OTHER
policy.

This patch uses sched_setscheduler_nocheck() so we omit the CAP_SYS_NICE
check which is otherwise required for the SCHED_OTHER policy.

Cc: Ivo Sieben <meltedpiano...@gmail.com>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff <tpf...@pcs.com>
[bigeasy: rewrite the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 514bcfd..3e59f95 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct 
irqaction *new)
                        goto out_mput;
                }
 
-               sched_setscheduler(t, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
+               sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
 
                /*
                 * We keep the reference to the task struct even if
-- 
1.8.4.rc3

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