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(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c index 7acc632c3b82..ed9a1d573cb1 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ struct psi_trigger *psi_trigger_create(struct psi_group *group, mutex_unlock(&group->trigger_lock); return ERR_CAST(kworker); } - sched_setscheduler(kworker->task, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(kworker->task, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); kthread_init_delayed_work(&group->poll_work, psi_poll_work); rcu_assign_pointer(group->poll_kworker, kworker); -- 2.22.0.709.g102302147b-goog