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)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:50:42 +0000 (09:50 +0100)
commitbbfe65c219c638e19f1da5adab1005b2d68ca810
tree785b809ad6426f779a3569887a7f7d7fe9cc705e
parentfd2f3b7ee1cf4b5fa77659c5ed4aa3cf5d1b3731
genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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>
kernel/irq/manage.c