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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:00:59 +0000 (09:00 -0800)
commit050c17f239fd53adb55aa768d4f41bc76c0fe045
treed8bb241be4466e703a405211344fca328d6ae2db
parenta841c673f1352f607fd3ba85de6c9c49ff2c1e12
numa: change get_mempolicy() to use nr_node_ids instead of MAX_NUMNODES

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>
mm/mempolicy.c