From: Thomas Pfaff Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:00:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE X-Git-Tag: v3.13-rc1~150^2 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bbfe65c219c638e19f1da5adab1005b2d68ca810;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE In commit ee23871389 ("genirq: Set irq thread to RT priority on creation") we moved the assigment of the thread's priority from the thread's function into __setup_irq(). That function may run in user context for instance if the user opens an UART node and then driver calls requests in the ->open() callback. That user may not have CAP_SYS_NICE and so the irq thread won't run with the SCHED_OTHER policy. This patch uses sched_setscheduler_nocheck() so we omit the CAP_SYS_NICE check which is otherwise required for the SCHED_OTHER policy. [bigeasy: Rewrite the changelog] Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff Cc: Ivo Sieben Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381489240-29626-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c index 514bcfd855a..3e59f951d42 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new) goto out_mput; } - sched_setscheduler(t, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); /* * We keep the reference to the task struct even if