Re: Patch "sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 12:07:07PM -0700, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
 > 
 > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
 > 
 >     sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0
 > 
 > to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
 >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

 > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
 > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
 > @@ -3683,6 +3683,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pi
 >  	if (sched_copy_attr(uattr, &attr))
 >  		return -EFAULT;
 >  
 > +	if (attr.sched_policy < 0)
 > +		return -EINVAL;
 > +
 >  	rcu_read_lock();
 >  	retval = -ESRCH;
 >  	p = find_process_by_pid(pid);

Greg,

Make sure you also grab b14ed2c273f8ab872ae4e6735fe5ab09cb14b8c3 to fix this commit.

	Dave