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[PATCH] do_sched_setscheduler(): don't take tasklist_lock

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Use rcu locks instead. sched_setscheduler() now takes ->siglock
before reading ->signal->rlim[].

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2006-09-29 02:00:48 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c9472e0f28
commit 5fe1d75f34
1 changed files with 18 additions and 10 deletions
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@ -4080,6 +4080,8 @@ static void __setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy, int prio)
* @p: the task in question.
* @policy: new policy.
* @param: structure containing the new RT priority.
*
* NOTE: the task may be already dead
*/
int sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy,
struct sched_param *param)
@ -4115,19 +4117,26 @@ recheck:
* Allow unprivileged RT tasks to decrease priority:
*/
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
unsigned long rlim_rtprio;
unsigned long flags;
if (!lock_task_sighand(p, &flags))
return -ESRCH;
rlim_rtprio = p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO].rlim_cur;
unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
/*
* can't change policy, except between SCHED_NORMAL
* and SCHED_BATCH:
*/
if (((policy != SCHED_NORMAL && p->policy != SCHED_BATCH) &&
(policy != SCHED_BATCH && p->policy != SCHED_NORMAL)) &&
!p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO].rlim_cur)
!rlim_rtprio)
return -EPERM;
/* can't increase priority */
if ((policy != SCHED_NORMAL && policy != SCHED_BATCH) &&
param->sched_priority > p->rt_priority &&
param->sched_priority >
p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO].rlim_cur)
param->sched_priority > rlim_rtprio)
return -EPERM;
/* can't change other user's priorities */
if ((current->euid != p->euid) &&
@ -4193,14 +4202,13 @@ do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param)
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(&lparam, param, sizeof(struct sched_param)))
return -EFAULT;
read_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
rcu_read_lock();
retval = -ESRCH;
p = find_process_by_pid(pid);
if (!p) {
read_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
return -ESRCH;
}
retval = sched_setscheduler(p, policy, &lparam);
read_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
if (p != NULL)
retval = sched_setscheduler(p, policy, &lparam);
rcu_read_unlock();
return retval;
}