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When an interface to allow a task to change another tasks timerslack was first proposed, it was suggested that something greater then CAP_SYS_NICE would be needed, as a task could be delayed further then what normally could be done with nice adjustments. So CAP_SYS_PTRACE was adopted instead for what became the /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns interface. However, for Android (where this feature originates), giving the system_server CAP_SYS_PTRACE would allow it to observe and modify all tasks memory. This is considered too high a privilege level for only needing to change the timerslack. After some discussion, it was realized that a CAP_SYS_NICE process can set a task as SCHED_FIFO, so they could fork some spinning processes and set them all SCHED_FIFO 99, in effect delaying all other tasks for an infinite amount of time. So as a CAP_SYS_NICE task can already cause trouble for other tasks, using it as a required capability for accessing and modifying /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns seems sufficient. Thus, this patch loosens the capability requirements to CAP_SYS_NICE and removes CAP_SYS_PTRACE, simplifying some of the code flow as well. This is technically an ABI change, but as the feature just landed in 4.6, I suspect no one is yet using it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469132667-17377-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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