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Hugh Dickins 4e0906008c mempolicy: mbind_range() set_policy() after vma_merge()
v2.6.34 commit 9d8cebd4bc ("mm: fix mbind vma merge problem") introduced
vma_merge() to mbind_range(); but unlike madvise, mlock and mprotect, it
put a "continue" to next vma where its precedents go to update flags on
current vma before advancing: that left vma with the wrong setting in the
infamous vma_merge() case 8.

v3.10 commit 1444f92c84 ("mm: merging memory blocks resets mempolicy")
tried to fix that in vma_adjust(), without fully understanding the issue.

v3.11 commit 3964acd0db ("mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() &&
vma_adjust() interaction") reverted that, and went about the fix in the
right way, but chose to optimize out an unnecessary mpol_dup() with a
prior mpol_equal() test.  But on tmpfs, that also pessimized out the vital
call to its ->set_policy(), leaving the new mbind unenforced.

The user visible effect was that the pages got allocated on the local
node (happened to be 0), after the mbind() caller had specifically
asked for them to be allocated on node 1.  There was not any page
migration involved in the case reported: the pages simply got allocated
on the wrong node.

Just delete that optimization now (though it could be made conditional on
vma not having a set_policy).  Also remove the "next" variable: it turned
out to be blameless, but also pointless.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/319e4db9-64ae-4bca-92f0-ade85d342ff@google.com
Fixes: 3964acd0db ("mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-22 15:57:09 -07:00
arch mm/hugetlb: generalize ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB 2022-03-22 15:57:08 -07:00
block fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
certs certs: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is empty 2022-01-23 00:08:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - get rid of alg_memory_allocated 2022-02-15 14:29:04 +00:00
Documentation mm: hugetlb: free the 2nd vmemmap page associated with each HugeTLB page 2022-03-22 15:57:08 -07:00
drivers mm/hwpoison: avoid the impact of hwpoison_filter() return value on mce handler 2022-03-22 15:57:07 -07:00
fs mm/fs: delete PF_SWAPWRITE 2022-03-22 15:57:08 -07:00
include mm: compaction: cleanup the compaction trace events 2022-03-22 15:57:09 -07:00
init lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel cma: factor out minimum alignment requirement 2022-03-22 15:57:05 -07:00
lib xarray: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mempolicy: mbind_range() set_policy() after vma_merge() 2022-03-22 15:57:09 -07:00
net fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
samples samples/seccomp: Adjust sample to also provide kill option 2022-02-10 19:09:12 -08:00
scripts scripts/spelling.txt: add more spellings to spelling.txt 2022-03-22 15:57:00 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.17 PR 20220223 2022-02-23 17:19:55 -08:00
sound ALSA: intel_hdmi: Fix reference to PCM buffer address 2022-03-02 09:25:37 +01:00
tools userfaultfd/selftests: fix uninitialized_var.cocci warning 2022-03-22 15:57:08 -07:00
usr kbuild: remove include/linux/cyclades.h from header file check 2022-01-27 08:51:08 +01:00
virt KVM: Fix lockdep false negative during host resume 2022-02-17 09:52:50 -05:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Add Paolo Abeni to networking maintainers 2022-03-15 12:16:10 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.17 2022-03-20 13:14:17 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.