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Date:   Sat, 25 May 2019 15:07:23 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <osalvador@...e.de>,
        <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, <mhocko@...e.com>,
        <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, <aarcange@...hat.com>
CC:     <rcampbell@...dia.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: Fix an incorrect rebind node in mpol_rebind_nodemask

We bind an different node to different vma, Unluckily,
it will bind different vma to same node by checking the /proc/pid/numa_maps.   
Commit 213980c0f23b ("mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets")
has introduced the issue.  when we change memory policy by seting cpuset.mems,
A process will rebind the specified policy more than one times. 
if the cpuset_mems_allowed is not equal to user specified nodes. hence the issue will trigger.
Maybe result in the out of memory which allocating memory from same node.

Fixes: 213980c0f23b ("mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets") 
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index e3ab1d9..a60a3be 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static void mpol_rebind_nodemask(struct mempolicy *pol, const nodemask_t *nodes)
 	else {
 		nodes_remap(tmp, pol->v.nodes,pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed,
 								*nodes);
-		pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed = tmp;
+		pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed = *nodes;
 	}
 
 	if (nodes_empty(tmp))
-- 
1.7.12.4

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