[PATCH 3.11 197/272] genirq: Set the irq thread policy without checking CAP_SYS_NICE

[Luis Henriques]

3.11.10.1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff at pcs.com>

commit bbfe65c219c638e19f1da5adab1005b2d68ca810 upstream.

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 <tpfaff at pcs.com>
Cc: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman at gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381489240-29626-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 514bcfd..3e59f95 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, &param);
+		sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
 
 		/*
 		 * We keep the reference to the task struct even if
-- 
1.8.3.2