From 5fe1d75f34974046fffcca5e22fb8a7b42fded33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:00:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] do_sched_setscheduler(): don't take tasklist_lock Use rcu locks instead. sched_setscheduler() now takes ->siglock before reading ->signal->rlim[]. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sched.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index b946209..f9b3c6a 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -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; } -- cgit v1.1