From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 3.16 029/125] sched: Fix sched_setparam() policy == -1 logic Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:06:26 -0700 Message-Id: <20140903220624.537067463@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140903220623.649748296@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140903220623.649748296@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 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, ¶m); param.sched_priority = 1; sched_setparam(0, ¶m); param.sched_priority = 0; sched_getparam(0, ¶m); 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3558,9 +3558,10 @@ 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;