[PATCH] Fix argument checking in sched_setaffinity
This patch fixes the argument length checking in sched_setaffinity. Previously it would error out when the length passed was smaller than sizeof(cpumask_t). And any bits beyond cpumask_s would be silently ignored. First this assumes that the user application knows the size of cpumask_t, which should be kernel internal. When you increase cpumask_t old applications break and there is no good way for the application to find out the cpumask_t size the kernel uses. This patch changes it to do similar checking to the NUMA API calls: - Any length is ok as long as all online CPUs are covered (this could still cause application breakage with more CPUs, but there is no good way around it) - When the user passes more than cpumask_t bytes the excess bytes are checked to be zero. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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