On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Dongsheng Yang
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <[email protected]>
> cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
> cc: Robin Holt <[email protected]>
> cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
> cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
> cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
> cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/sys.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index c0a58be..adaeab6 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setpriority, int, which, int, who, int, 
> niceval)
>
>         /* normalize: avoid signed division (rounding problems) */
>         error = -ESRCH;
> -       if (niceval < -20)
> -               niceval = -20;
> -       if (niceval > 19)
> -               niceval = 19;
> +       if (niceval < MIN_NICE)
> +               niceval = MIN_NICE;
> +       if (niceval > MAX_NICE)
> +               niceval = MAX_NICE;

Good catch! I'm all for using names instead of numeric values,
however, I wonder if it'd be more readable to use "clamp" instead?

niceval = clamp(niceval, MIN_NICE, MAX_NICE);

-Kees

>
>         rcu_read_lock();
>         read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> --
> 1.8.2.1
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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