Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13rc3: RLIMIT_RTPRIO broken

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> wrote:

> RLIMIT_RTPRIO is supposed to grant non privileged users the right to 
> use SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR scheduling policies with priorites bounded by 
> the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value via sched_setscheduler(). This is usually used 
> by audio users.
> 
> Unfortunately this is broken in 2.6.13rc3 as you can see in the 
> excerpt from sched_setscheduler below:
> 
>         /*
>          * Allow unprivileged RT tasks to decrease priority:
>          */
>         if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
>                 /* can't change policy */
>                 if (policy != p->policy)
>                         return -EPERM;
> 
> After the above unconditional test which causes sched_setscheduler to
> fail with no regard to the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value the following check is made:
> 
>                /* can't increase priority */
>                 if (policy != SCHED_NORMAL &&
>                     param->sched_priority > p->rt_priority &&
>                     param->sched_priority >
>                                 p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO].rlim_cur)
>                         return -EPERM;
> 
> Thus I do believe that the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value must be taken into 
> account for the policy check, especially as the RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit is 
> of no use without this change.
> 
> The attached patch fixes this problem. I would appreciate it if the 
> fix would make it into 2.6.13.

[back from KS/OLS]

indeed. The effect of the bug is that RLIMIT_RTPRIO is completely
non-functional in 2.6.12.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo