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- Add a sysctl to allow non-root users the ability to set idle

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priorities.

- While here fix up some style nits.

Discussed with: cperciva (breifly)
Reviewed by:	pjd (earlier version)
Reviewed by:	bde
Approved by:	jhb
MFC after:	1 month
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Eitan Adler 2011-12-13 14:00:27 +00:00
parent 53627e400f
commit 9910b854c6
1 changed files with 33 additions and 25 deletions
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sys/kern/kern_resource.c
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@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include <sys/sched.h>
#include <sys/sx.h>
#include <sys/syscallsubr.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
#include <sys/sysent.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/umtx.h>
@ -273,6 +274,10 @@ donice(struct thread *td, struct proc *p, int n)
return (0);
}
static int unprivileged_idprio;
SYSCTL_INT(_security_bsd, OID_AUTO, unprivileged_idprio, CTLFLAG_RW,
&unprivileged_idprio, 0, "Allow non-root users to set an idle priority");
/*
* Set realtime priority for LWP.
*/
@ -321,18 +326,26 @@ sys_rtprio_thread(struct thread *td, struct rtprio_thread_args *uap)
break;
/* Disallow setting rtprio in most cases if not superuser. */
/*
* Realtime priority has to be restricted for reasons which should be
* obvious. However, for idle priority, there is a potential for
* system deadlock if an idleprio process gains a lock on a resource
* that other processes need (and the idleprio process can't run
* due to a CPU-bound normal process). Fix me! XXX
*/
#if 0
if (RTP_PRIO_IS_REALTIME(rtp.type)) {
#else
if (rtp.type != RTP_PRIO_NORMAL) {
#endif
/*
* Realtime priority has to be restricted for reasons which
* should be obvious. However, for idleprio processes, there is
* a potential for system deadlock if an idleprio process gains
* a lock on a resource that other processes need (and the
* idleprio process can't run due to a CPU-bound normal
* process). Fix me! XXX
*
* This problem is not only related to idleprio process.
* A user level program can obtain a file lock and hold it
* indefinitely. Additionally, without idleprio processes it is
* still conceivable that a program with low priority will never
* get to run. In short, allowing this feature might make it
* easier to lock a resource indefinitely, but it is not the
* only thing that makes it possible.
*/
if (RTP_PRIO_BASE(rtp.type) == RTP_PRIO_REALTIME ||
(RTP_PRIO_BASE(rtp.type) == RTP_PRIO_IDLE &&
unprivileged_idprio == 0)) {
error = priv_check(td, PRIV_SCHED_RTPRIO);
if (error)
break;
@ -417,19 +430,14 @@ sys_rtprio(td, uap)
if ((error = p_cansched(td, p)) || (error = cierror))
break;
/* Disallow setting rtprio in most cases if not superuser. */
/*
* Realtime priority has to be restricted for reasons which should be
* obvious. However, for idle priority, there is a potential for
* system deadlock if an idleprio process gains a lock on a resource
* that other processes need (and the idleprio process can't run
* due to a CPU-bound normal process). Fix me! XXX
*/
#if 0
if (RTP_PRIO_IS_REALTIME(rtp.type)) {
#else
if (rtp.type != RTP_PRIO_NORMAL) {
#endif
/*
* Disallow setting rtprio in most cases if not superuser.
* See the comment in sys_rtprio_thread about idprio
* threads holding a lock.
*/
if (RTP_PRIO_BASE(rtp.type) == RTP_PRIO_REALTIME ||
(RTP_PRIO_BASE(rtp.type) == RTP_PRIO_IDLE &&
!unprivileged_idprio)) {
error = priv_check(td, PRIV_SCHED_RTPRIO);
if (error)
break;