Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2021 15:47:57 -0400 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] psi: allow unprivileged users with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to write psi files |
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On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:47:33AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:31:56PM -0400, Josh Hunt wrote: > > Currently only root can write files under /proc/pressure. Relax this to > > allow tasks running as unprivileged users with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to be > > able to write to these files. > > > > Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> > > I suppose that's ok, but lets also ask Johannes.
The write creates a kthread that runs as SCHED_FIFO. For userspace threads this is reserved for CAP_SYS_NICE tasks, but it's a kernel thread and not arbitrary code, so I suppose CAP_SYS_RESOURCE is fine.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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