Re: [PATCH] sched: fix sched_setparam() policy=-1 logic

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 23 2014 - 10:36:41 EST


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:27:41PM -0300, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> 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");
> }
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.14+
> Fixes: 7479f3c9cf67 "sched: Move SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK into attr::sched_flags"
> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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