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Re: [PATCH roland/nptl] NPTL: Don't (re)validate sched_priority in pthread_create.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:30:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/nptl] NPTL: Don't (re)validate sched_priority in pthread_create.
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On 11/19/2014 08:24 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> What would like to know is: Have you tested the failure mode?
>> If you haven't, please do, and if it works sanely, then LGTM.
>
> I've written up a test for the expected EINVAL diagnosis. It depends
> on constructing a pthread_attr_t with invalid scheduling parameters,
> which AFAIK is possible only by using pthread_attr_setschedparam while
> the pthread_attr_t is set to one scheduling policy where a given
> struct sched_param is valid and then using pthread_attr_setschedpolicy
> to switch it to a policy where those values are invalid. This
> requires some assumptions about the policies and their parameters, but
> those are predictable enough at least for Linux.
Should this even be possible?
> I'll (post and) put the new test in first, then verify this change
> doesn't regress it and commit.
Awesome, I couldn't ask for anything more.
>> What is the impetus behind this change?
>
> As I've been doing for some time now, I'm moving errant unconditional
> Linuxisms (such as direct INTERNAL_SYSCALL use) out of NPTL code.
> Mostly I'm just refactoring things to have Linuxisms in appropriate
> sysdeps files, but I'm not doing that blindly. This was a case where
> what the Linuxism was doing didn't seem worth keeping.
Makes perfect sense.
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