sched: Disallow sched_attr::sched_policy < 0

The scheduler uses policy=-1 to preserve the current policy state to
implement sys_sched_setparam(), this got exposed to userspace by
accident through sys_sched_setattr(), cure this.

Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -3662,6 +3662,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
 
+	if (attr.sched_policy < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	retval = -ESRCH;
 	p = find_process_by_pid(pid);