From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758098Ab3LFNZD (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 08:25:03 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:44492 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758300Ab3LFND5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 08:03:57 -0500 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Thomas Pfaff , Ivo Sieben , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Thomas Gleixner , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 3.11 197/272] genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:58:06 +0000 Message-Id: <1386334761-25517-198-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 In-Reply-To: <1386334761-25517-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1386334761-25517-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.11.10.1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Pfaff 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 Cc: Ivo Sieben Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381489240-29626-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c index 514bcfd..3e59f95 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new) goto out_mput; } - sched_setscheduler(t, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); /* * We keep the reference to the task struct even if -- 1.8.3.2