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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2014-01-15 17:15:13 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-01-16 09:27:16 +0100
commit0bb040a44381261c0729636abbe03caeedb7d72e (patch)
tree93aadef8749484368b3a83c353722d691fad7c47
parent39fd8fd22b3224ec6819d33b3e34ae4da6a35f05 (diff)
downloadlinux-0bb040a44381261c0729636abbe03caeedb7d72e.tar.gz
sched: Fix up attr::sched_priority warning
Fengguang Wu reported the following build warning:

  > kernel/sched/core.c:3067 __sched_setscheduler() warn: unsigned 'attr->sched_priority' is never less than zero.

Since it doesn't make sense for attr::sched_priority to be negative,
remove the check, since we already test for an upper limit any actual
negative values passed in through the old param::sched_priority field
will still be detected.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Fixes: d50dde5a10f3 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fid9nalzii2r5voxtf4eh5kz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index e9212eb354b8..5a6ccdf4b39d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3282,8 +3282,7 @@ recheck:
 	 * 1..MAX_USER_RT_PRIO-1, valid priority for SCHED_NORMAL,
 	 * SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE is 0.
 	 */
-	if (attr->sched_priority < 0 ||
-	    (p->mm && attr->sched_priority > MAX_USER_RT_PRIO-1) ||
+	if ((p->mm && attr->sched_priority > MAX_USER_RT_PRIO-1) ||
 	    (!p->mm && attr->sched_priority > MAX_RT_PRIO-1))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if ((dl_policy(policy) && !__checkparam_dl(attr)) ||