block: add ioprio_check_cap function

Aio per command iopriority support introduces a second interface between
userland and the kernel capable of passing iopriority. The aio interface also
needs the ability to verify that the submitting context has sufficient
privileges to submit IOPRIO_RT commands. This patch creates the
ioprio_check_cap function to be used by the ioprio_set system call and also by
the aio interface.

Signed-off-by: Adam Manzanares <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

Author: nmtadam

block/ioprio.c

@@ -61,15 +61,10 @@ int set_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *task, int ioprio)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_task_ioprio);
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio)
+int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
 {
 	int class = IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS(ioprio);
 	int data = IOPRIO_PRIO_DATA(ioprio);
-	struct task_struct *p, *g;
-	struct user_struct *user;
-	struct pid *pgrp;
-	kuid_t uid;
-	int ret;
 
 	switch (class) {
 		case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
@@ -92,6 +87,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio)
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	return 0;
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio)
+{
+	struct task_struct *p, *g;
+	struct user_struct *user;
+	struct pid *pgrp;
+	kuid_t uid;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = ioprio_check_cap(ioprio);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	ret = -ESRCH;
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	switch (which) {

include/linux/ioprio.h

@@ -77,4 +77,6 @@ extern int ioprio_best(unsigned short aprio, unsigned short bprio);
 
 extern int set_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *task, int ioprio);
 
+extern int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio);
+
 #endif