Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Don't report SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV in sched_getattr()

From: Juri Lelli
Date: Wed Jul 28 2021 - 05:12:11 EST


Hi Quentin,

On 27/07/21 11:11, Quentin Perret wrote:
> SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV is supposed to be a kernel-only flag that userspace
> cannot interact with. However, sched_getattr() currently reports it
> in sched_flags if called on a sugov worker even though it is not
> actually defined in a UAPI header. To avoid this, make sure to
> clean-up the sched_flags field in sched_getattr() before returning to
> userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 2d9ff40f4661..d8f489dcc383 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -7535,6 +7535,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
> kattr.sched_priority = p->rt_priority;
> else
> kattr.sched_nice = task_nice(p);
> + kattr.sched_flags &= SCHED_FLAG_ALL;

Maybe we can do this in the previous patch so that it's kept confined to
deadline bits?

Thanks,
Juri