Re: [PATCH] psi: allow unprivileged users with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to write psi files

Johannes Weiner
2021-04-01T19:48:02Z

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:47:33AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:31:56PM -0400, Josh Hunt wrote:
> > Currently only root can write files under /proc/pressure. Relax this to
> > allow tasks running as unprivileged users with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to be
> > able to write to these files.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
>
> I suppose that's ok, but lets also ask Johannes.

The write creates a kthread that runs as SCHED_FIFO. For userspace
threads this is reserved for CAP_SYS_NICE tasks, but it's a kernel
thread and not arbitrary code, so I suppose CAP_SYS_RESOURCE is fine.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>