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Subject[PATCH 3.12 026/212] genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE
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3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com>

commit bbfe65c219c638e19f1da5adab1005b2d68ca810 upstream.

In commit ee23871389 ("genirq: Set irq thread to RT priority on
creation") we moved the assigment of the thread's priority from the
thread's function into __setup_irq(). That function may run in user
context for instance if the user opens an UART node and then driver
calls requests in the ->open() callback. That user may not have
CAP_SYS_NICE and so the irq thread won't run with the SCHED_OTHER
policy.

This patch uses sched_setscheduler_nocheck() so we omit the CAP_SYS_NICE
check which is otherwise required for the SCHED_OTHER policy.

[bigeasy: Rewrite the changelog]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com>
Cc: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381489240-29626-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq
goto out_mput;
}

- sched_setscheduler(t, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &param);

/*
* We keep the reference to the task struct even if



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