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Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/mempolicy: add nodes_empty check in SYSC_migrate_pages

From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2017-12-01 15:20:12
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On 12/01/2017 10:55 AM, Yisheng Xie wrote:
As in manpage of migrate_pages, the errno should be set to EINVAL when
none of the node IDs specified by new_nodes are on-line and allowed by the
process's current cpuset context, or none of the specified nodes contain
memory.  However, when test by following case:

	new_nodes = 0;
	old_nodes = 0xf;
	ret = migrate_pages(pid, old_nodes, new_nodes, MAX);

The ret will be 0 and no errno is set.  As the new_nodes is empty, we
should expect EINVAL as documented.

To fix the case like above, this patch check whether target nodes AND
current task_nodes is empty, and then check whether AND
node_states[N_MEMORY] is empty.

Meanwhile,this patch also remove the check of EPERM on CAP_SYS_NICE. 
The caller of migrate_pages should be able to migrate the target process
pages anywhere the caller can allocate memory, if the caller can access
the mm_struct.

Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <redacted>
Cc: Andi Kleen <redacted>
Cc: Chris Salls <redacted>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <redacted>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <redacted>
Cc: Tan Xiaojun <redacted>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
---
v3:
 * check whether node is empty after AND current task node, and then nodes
   which have memory
v4:
 * remove the check of EPERM on CAP_SYS_NICE.

Hi Vlastimil and Christopher,

Could you please help to review this version?
Hi, I think we should stay with v3 after all. What I missed when
reviewing it, is that the EPERM check is for cpuset_mems_allowed(task)
and in v3 you add EINVAL check for cpuset_mems_allowed(current), which
may not be the same, and the intention of CAP_SYS_NICE is not whether we
can bypass our own cpuset, but whether we can bypass the target task's
cpuset. Sorry for the confusion.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Thanks
Yisheng Xie

 mm/mempolicy.c | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 65df28d..4da74b6 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1426,17 +1426,14 @@ static int copy_nodes_to_user(unsigned long __user *mask, unsigned long maxnode,
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
-	task_nodes = cpuset_mems_allowed(task);
-	/* Is the user allowed to access the target nodes? */
-	if (!nodes_subset(*new, task_nodes) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
-		err = -EPERM;
+	task_nodes = cpuset_mems_allowed(current);
+	nodes_and(*new, *new, task_nodes);
+	if (nodes_empty(*new))
 		goto out_put;
-	}
 
-	if (!nodes_subset(*new, node_states[N_MEMORY])) {
-		err = -EINVAL;
+	nodes_and(*new, *new, node_states[N_MEMORY]);
+	if (nodes_empty(*new))
 		goto out_put;
-	}
 
 	err = security_task_movememory(task);
 	if (err)
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