From 14a40ffccd6163bbcd1d6f32b28a88ffe6149fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:45:20 -0700 Subject: sched: replace PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY PF_THREAD_BOUND was originally used to mark kernel threads which were bound to a specific CPU using kthread_bind() and a task with the flag set allows cpus_allowed modifications only to itself. Workqueue is currently abusing it to prevent userland from meddling with cpus_allowed of workqueue workers. What we need is a flag to prevent userland from messing with cpus_allowed of certain kernel tasks. In kernel, anyone can (incorrectly) squash the flag, and, for worker-type usages, restricting cpus_allowed modification to the task itself doesn't provide meaningful extra proection as other tasks can inject work items to the task anyway. This patch replaces PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY. sched_setaffinity() checks the flag and return -EINVAL if set. set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is no longer affected by the flag. This will allow simplifying workqueue worker CPU affinity management. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/kthread.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c') diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 691dc2ef9baf..a2fbbb782bad 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static void __kthread_bind(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu) { /* It's safe because the task is inactive. */ do_set_cpus_allowed(p, cpumask_of(cpu)); - p->flags |= PF_THREAD_BOUND; + p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY; } /** -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b