linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: fix the wrong return value and potential pages leak of mbind

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Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:47:17 -0700
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     lixinhai.lxh@...il.com, vbabka@...e.cz, mhocko@...e.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, 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 9:31 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:14:58 -0700 Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>> 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")
> What's the relationship between this patch and
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201910291756045288126@gmail.com?

They are irrelevant. The commit d883544515aa ("mm: mempolicy: make the 
behavior consistent
when MPOL_MF_MOVE* and MPOL_MF_STRICT were specified") override the 
-EFAULT return value of queue_pages_range() by -EIO mistakenly and 
missed putting non-empty pagelist back, this patch is aimed to fix the 
two issues.

I think Li Xinhai found the return value override problem during 
debugging his patch.