Commit 3ec482d1 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe

io_uring: restrict IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL to root

This options spawns a kernel side thread that will poll for submissions
(and completions, if IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL is set). As this allows a user
to potentially use more cycles outside of the normal hierarchy,
restrict the use of this feature to root.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 70423667
......@@ -2245,6 +2245,10 @@ static int io_sq_offload_start(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
goto err;
if (ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL) {
ret = -EPERM;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
goto err;
if (p->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQ_AFF) {
int cpu;
......
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