From: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 08:20:23 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed
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cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed

Creating a child cpuset where cpuset.mems is never set leads to a div/0
when a VMA mempolicy with MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES rebinds in response to a
CPU hotplug event.

Reproduction steps:
 1) Create a cgroup w/ cpuset controls (do not set cpuset.mems)
 2) Move the task into the child cpuset
 3) Create a VMA mempolicy for that task with MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
 4) unplug and hotplug a cpu
      echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
      echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
 5) mempolicy rebind does a div/0 in mpol_relative_nodemask on the
    call to __nodes_fold()

The cpuset code passes (cs->mems_allowed) which is not guaranteed to have
nodes to the rebind routine.  Use cs->effective_mems instead, which is
guaranteed to have a non-empty nodemask once we reach that code path.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+0ovCiEz6SP_sn3kN4Tb+_oC=eHMXy_Ffj=usV3wREdQrUtww@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: ae1c802382f7 ("cpuset: apply cs->effective_{cpus,mems}")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CA+0ovCgxbZkXa+OU8w3s84R3KNPNxxRfmsNR-udh+afQBbGNmw@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[ david: add a comment, slightly rephrase description ]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 591e3aa487fc1..45944b3e31ca4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -2653,7 +2653,12 @@ void cpuset_update_tasks_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs)
 
 		migrate = is_memory_migrate(cs);
 
-		mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->mems_allowed);
+		/*
+		 * For v1 we can have empty effective_mems, but we cannot
+		 * attach any tasks (see cpuset_can_attach_check()). For v2,
+		 * effective_mems is guaranteed to not be empty.
+		 */
+		mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->effective_mems);
 		if (migrate)
 			cpuset_migrate_mm(mm, &cs->old_mems_allowed, &newmems);
 		else