From userspace, spawning a new process with, for example, posix_spawn(), only allows the user to work with the scheduling priority value defined by POSIX in the sched_param struct.

However, sched_setparam() and similar syscalls lead to __sched_setscheduler() which rejects any new value for the priority other than 0 for non-RT schedule classes, a behavior kept since Linux 2.6 or earlier.

Linux translates the usage of the sched_param struct into it's own internal sched_attr struct during the syscall, but the user has no way to manage the other values within the sched_attr struct using only POSIX functions.

The only other way to adjust niceness while using posix_spawn() would be to set the value after the process has started, but this introduces the risk of the process being dead before the next syscall can set the priority after the fact.

To resolve this, allow the use of the priority value originally from the POSIX sched_param struct in order to set the niceness value instead of rejecting the priority value.

Edit the sched_get_priority_*() POSIX syscalls in order to reflect the range of values accepted.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Apply to kernel/sched/core.c Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt mcpratt@pm.me --- kernel/sched/syscalls.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/syscalls.c b/kernel/sched/syscalls.c index ae1b42775ef9..52c02b80f037 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/sched/syscalls.c @@ -853,6 +853,19 @@ static int _sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, int policy, attr.sched_policy = policy; }

+ if (attr.sched_priority > MAX_PRIO-1) + return -EINVAL; + + /* + * If priority is set for SCHED_NORMAL or SCHED_BATCH, + * set the niceness instead, but only for user calls. + */ + if (check && attr.sched_priority > MAX_RT_PRIO-1 && + ((policy != SETPARAM_POLICY && fair_policy(policy)) || fair_policy(p->policy))) { + attr.sched_nice = PRIO_TO_NICE(attr.sched_priority); + attr.sched_priority = 0; + } + return __sched_setscheduler(p, &attr, check, true); } /** @@ -1598,9 +1611,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sched_get_priority_max, int, policy) case SCHED_RR: ret = MAX_RT_PRIO-1; break; - case SCHED_DEADLINE: case SCHED_NORMAL: case SCHED_BATCH: + ret = MAX_PRIO-1; + break; + case SCHED_DEADLINE: case SCHED_IDLE: ret = 0; break; @@ -1625,9 +1640,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sched_get_priority_min, int, policy) case SCHED_RR: ret = 1; break; - case SCHED_DEADLINE: case SCHED_NORMAL: case SCHED_BATCH: + ret = MAX_RT_PRIO; + break; + case SCHED_DEADLINE: case SCHED_IDLE: ret = 0; }

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