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numa: change get_mempolicy() to use nr_node_ids instead of MAX_NUMNODES
authorRalph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:18:58 +0000 (22:18 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:09:41 +0000 (10:09 +0100)
commita9432d1b208225db3e83ac3a09da8eca6d289bd8
tree11e4e0e959a65359ee75fc570ef63e921f453265
parentdee3c19384ed8d0c93055adad76d77eecc0dfe3e
numa: change get_mempolicy() to use nr_node_ids instead of MAX_NUMNODES

commit 050c17f239fd53adb55aa768d4f41bc76c0fe045 upstream.

The system call, get_mempolicy() [1], passes an unsigned long *nodemask
pointer and an unsigned long maxnode argument which specifies the length
of the user's nodemask array in bits (which is rounded up).  The manual
page says that if the maxnode value is too small, get_mempolicy will
return EINVAL but there is no system call to return this minimum value.
To determine this value, some programs search /proc/<pid>/status for a
line starting with "Mems_allowed:" and use the number of digits in the
mask to determine the minimum value.  A recent change to the way this line
is formatted [2] causes these programs to compute a value less than
MAX_NUMNODES so get_mempolicy() returns EINVAL.

Change get_mempolicy(), the older compat version of get_mempolicy(), and
the copy_nodes_to_user() function to use nr_node_ids instead of
MAX_NUMNODES, thus preserving the defacto method of computing the minimum
size for the nodemask array and the maxnode argument.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/get_mempolicy.2.html
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1545405631-6808-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190211180245.22295-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Fixes: 4fb8e5b89bcbbbb ("include/linux/nodemask.h: use nr_node_ids (not MAX_NUMNODES) in __nodemask_pr_numnodes()")
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c