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Message-ID: <YRvYaGa4QnhV2q51@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:40:24 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 07/16] sched: Split the guts of sched_setaffinity()
 into a helper function

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:24:34PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> In preparation for replaying user affinity requests using a saved mask,
> split sched_setaffinity() up so that the initial task lookup and
> security checks are only performed when the request is coming directly
> from userspace.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

Should not sched_setaffinity() update user_cpus_ptr when it isn't NULL,
such that the upcoming relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() preserve the
full user mask?

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