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Message-ID: <12ac5b41-27a6-5a5b-0d07-7e9cb847829d@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:14:58 -0700
From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: lixinhai.lxh@...il.com, vbabka@...e.cz, mhocko@...e.com,
mgorman@...hsingularity.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: fix the wrong return value and potential
pages leak of mbind
On 10/30/19 9:58 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
> The commit d883544515aa ("mm: mempolicy: make the behavior consistent
> when MPOL_MF_MOVE* and MPOL_MF_STRICT were specified") fixed the return
> value of mbind() for a couple of corner cases. But, it altered the
> errno for some other cases, for example, mbind() should return -EFAULT
> when part or all of the memory range specified by nodemask and maxnode
> points outside your accessible address space, or there was an unmapped
> hole in the specified memory range specified by addr and len.
>
> Fixed this by preserving the errno returned by queue_pages_range().
> And, the pagelist may be not empty even though queue_pages_range()
> returns error, put the pages back to LRU since mbind_range() is not called
> to really apply the policy so those pages should not be migrated, this
> is also the old behavior before the problematic commit.
Forgot fixes tag.
Fixes: d883544515aa ("mm: mempolicy: make the behavior consistent when
MPOL_MF_MOVE* and MPOL_MF_STRICT were specified")
> Reported-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@...il.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> v4.19 and v5.2+
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> mm/mempolicy.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index 4ae967b..e08c941 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -672,7 +672,9 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> * 1 - there is unmovable page, but MPOL_MF_MOVE* & MPOL_MF_STRICT were
> * specified.
> * 0 - queue pages successfully or no misplaced page.
> - * -EIO - there is misplaced page and only MPOL_MF_STRICT was specified.
> + * errno - i.e. misplaced pages with MPOL_MF_STRICT specified (-EIO) or
> + * memory range specified by nodemask and maxnode points outside
> + * your accessible address space (-EFAULT)
> */
> static int
> queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> @@ -1286,7 +1288,7 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
> flags | MPOL_MF_INVERT, &pagelist);
>
> if (ret < 0) {
> - err = -EIO;
> + err = ret;
> goto up_out;
> }
>
> @@ -1305,10 +1307,12 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
>
> if ((ret > 0) || (nr_failed && (flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT)))
> err = -EIO;
> - } else
> - putback_movable_pages(&pagelist);
> -
> + } else {
> up_out:
> + if (!list_empty(&pagelist))
> + putback_movable_pages(&pagelist);
> + }
> +
> up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> mpol_out:
> mpol_put(new);
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