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: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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;