sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0

Peter Zijlstra · Ingo Molnar · commit dbdb22754fde · 2014-05-22T10:21:26.000+02:00
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: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 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>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3662,6 +3662,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
 
+	if (attr.sched_policy < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	retval = -ESRCH;
 	p = find_process_by_pid(pid);
