Re: kauth and sched_{get,set}param

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> 
> That said, the call to the kauth authorization wrapper is still done
> with p_smutex held. For example in sys__sched_setparam(), the logic is
> 
>       p = p_find(pid, PFIND_UNLOCK_FAIL);
>       mutex_enter(&p->p_smutex);
>       mutex_exit(&proclist_lock);
> 
> so I don't see how we can call kauth with p without having either
> proclist_list or p_smutex held.

It is likely to be almost impossible to ever have a kernel where
the kauth functions are allowed to sleep.
Not least because many of the check have to be atomic wrt data that
other threads/processes can change.

        David

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