Re: [PATCH v6 11/21] sched: Split the guts of sched_setaffinity() into a helper function

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 05/18/21 10:47, Will Deacon wrote:
> > In preparation for replaying user affinity requests using a saved mask,
> > split sched_setaffinity() up so that the initial task lookup and
> > security checks are only performed when the request is coming directly
> > from userspace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/sched/core.c | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> >  1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index 9512623d5a60..808bbe669a6d 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -6788,9 +6788,61 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
> >  	return retval;
> >  }
> >  
> > -long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *in_mask)
> > +static int
> > +__sched_setaffinity(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *mask)
> >  {
> > +	int retval;
> >  	cpumask_var_t cpus_allowed, new_mask;
> > +
> > +	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpus_allowed, GFP_KERNEL))
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&new_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Shouldn't we free cpus_allowed first?

Oops, yes. Now fixed.

Thanks,

Will