Commit-ID: d44753b843e093f9e1f2f14806fbe106fff74898 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d44753b843e093f9e1f2f14806fbe106fff74898 Author: Juri Lelli <juri.le...@gmail.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:09:21 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:33:46 +0100
sched/deadline: Deny unprivileged users to set/change SCHED_DEADLINE policy Deny the use of SCHED_DEADLINE policy to unprivileged users. Even if root users can set the policy for normal users, we don't want the latter to be able to change their parameters (safest behavior). Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.le...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393844961-18097-1-git-send-email-juri.le...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 6edbef2..f5c6635 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3338,6 +3338,15 @@ recheck: return -EPERM; } + /* + * Can't set/change SCHED_DEADLINE policy at all for now + * (safest behavior); in the future we would like to allow + * unprivileged DL tasks to increase their relative deadline + * or reduce their runtime (both ways reducing utilization) + */ + if (dl_policy(policy)) + return -EPERM; + /* * Treat SCHED_IDLE as nice 20. Only allow a switch to * SCHED_NORMAL if the RLIMIT_NICE would normally permit it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
