[PATCH 3.14 21/88] sched: Fix sched_setparam() policy == -1 logic

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-03T23:31:38Z

From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>

commit d8d28c8f00e84a72e8bee39a85835635417bee49 upstream.

The scheduler uses policy == -1 to preserve the current policy state to
implement sched_setparam(). But, as (int) -1 is equals to 0xffffffff,
it's matching the if (policy & SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK) on
_sched_setscheduler(). This match changes the policy value to an
invalid value, breaking the sched_setparam() syscall.

This patch checks policy == -1 before check the SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK flag.

The following program shows the bug:

int main(void)
{
struct sched_param param = {
.sched_priority = 5,
};

sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
param.sched_priority = 1;
sched_setparam(0, &param);
param.sched_priority = 0;
sched_getparam(0, &param);
if (param.sched_priority != 1)
printf("failed priority setting (found %d instead of 1)\n",
param.sched_priority);
else
printf("priority setting fine\n");
}

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7479f3c9cf67 "sched: Move SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK into attr::sched_flags"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ebe0566a08dbbb3999759d3f20d6004bb2dbcfa.1406079891.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3511,9 +3511,10 @@ static int _sched_setscheduler(struct ta
};

/*
- * Fixup the legacy SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK hack
+ * Fixup the legacy SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK hack, except if
+ * the policy=-1 was passed by sched_setparam().
*/
- if (policy & SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK) {
+ if ((policy != -1) && (policy & SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK)) {
attr.sched_flags |= SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK;
policy &= ~SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK;
attr.sched_policy = policy;