genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE
authorThomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com>
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:00:40 +0000 (13:00 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:05:09 +0000 (11:05 -0800)
commit74c30973e25e48bccb6b9c9a5e75d289e83e5f2a
tree9f38464816dd539f274c05c7c24d42b6f684741b
parentda007325dea72ba19e7567cbd14e45ff68f1fbef
genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE

commit bbfe65c219c638e19f1da5adab1005b2d68ca810 upstream.

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.

[bigeasy: Rewrite the changelog]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com>
Cc: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381489240-29626-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/irq/manage.c