sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 9 May 2014 08:49:03 +0000 (10:49 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:54:10 +0000 (11:54 -0700)
commit5c246e46261532ccac530536336143171ce2d641
treea93b944d1fb4e11fc66743dddb6a131f7c3d2486
parentf6f465b98ae033f1f57179e2c4649b7d29d5af8e
sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0

commit dbdb22754fde671dc93d2fae06f8be113d47f2fb upstream.

The scheduler uses policy=-1 to preserve the current policy state to
implement sys_sched_setparam(), this got exposed to userspace by
accident through sys_sched_setattr(), cure this.

Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140509085311.GJ30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/sched/core.c