From d44753b843e093f9e1f2f14806fbe106fff74898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juri Lelli Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:09:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Deny unprivileged users to set/change SCHED_DEADLINE policy Deny the use of SCHED_DEADLINE policy to unprivileged users. Even if root users can set the policy for normal users, we don't want the latter to be able to change their parameters (safest behavior). Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393844961-18097-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 6edbef296ece..f5c6635b806c 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3338,6 +3338,15 @@ recheck: return -EPERM; } + /* + * Can't set/change SCHED_DEADLINE policy at all for now + * (safest behavior); in the future we would like to allow + * unprivileged DL tasks to increase their relative deadline + * or reduce their runtime (both ways reducing utilization) + */ + if (dl_policy(policy)) + return -EPERM; + /* * Treat SCHED_IDLE as nice 20. Only allow a switch to * SCHED_NORMAL if the RLIMIT_NICE would normally permit it.