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authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2017-09-07 11:47:17 -0700
committerSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>2021-01-08 12:03:41 +0530
commitc3b6910c954ffbe1b5ede71ac4a61693e19454cf (patch)
treeb2b0851c637bb815bd74e249280c2c3ba2443e01
parent7737300326f1833794ad4465fe02674181acbb43 (diff)
HACK: ANDROID: Allow CAP_SYS_NICE tasks to migrate processes between cgroups
This hack allows CAP_SYS_NICE tasks to have privledge to migrate other tasks between cgroups. This is used by the system_service to migrate processes between top-app, foreground, background cgroups for cputime and schedtune groups. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index 32596fdbcd5b..a887e8f2f399 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -510,7 +510,8 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup1_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
tcred = get_task_cred(task);
if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) &&
!uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
- !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid))
+ !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid) &&
+ !ns_capable(tcred->user_ns, CAP_SYS_NICE))
ret = -EACCES;
put_cred(tcred);
if (ret)