Re: Patch "sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Jun 09 2014 - 15:16:38 EST


On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 12:07:07PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0
>
> to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3683,6 +3683,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pi
> if (sched_copy_attr(uattr, &attr))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> + if (attr.sched_policy < 0)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> rcu_read_lock();
> retval = -ESRCH;
> p = find_process_by_pid(pid);

Greg,

Make sure you also grab b14ed2c273f8ab872ae4e6735fe5ab09cb14b8c3 to fix this commit.

Dave

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