Re: [PATCH 1/1] psi: do not require setsched permission from the trigger creator

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:57 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:42:05PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > When a process creates a new trigger by writing into /proc/pressure/*
> > files, permissions to write such a file should be used to determine whether
> > the process is allowed to do so or not. Current implementation would also
> > require such a process to have setsched capability. Setting of psi trigger
> > thread's scheduling policy is an implementation detail and should not be
> > exposed to the user level. Remove the permission check by using _nocheck
> > version of the function.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Nick Kralevich <nnk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/sched/psi.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file kernel/sched/psi.c
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:SCHEDULER)
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:SCHEDULER)
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:SCHEDULER)
>
>
> No where am I listed there, so why did you send this "To:" me?
>

Oh, sorry about that. Both Ingo and Peter are CC'ed directly. Should I
still resend?

> please fix up and resend.
>
> greg k-h



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