Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: make mbind() return -EIO when MPOL_MF_STRICT is specified

[Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 3/19/19 5:49 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Yang Shi wrote:
>
>> When MPOL_MF_STRICT was specified and an existing page was already
>> on a node that does not follow the policy, mbind() should return -EIO.
>> But commit 6f4576e3687b ("mempolicy: apply page table walker on
>> queue_pages_range()") broke the rule.
>>
>> And, commit c8633798497c ("mm: mempolicy: mbind and migrate_pages
>> support thp migration") didn't return the correct value for THP mbind()
>> too.
>>
>> If MPOL_MF_STRICT is set, ignore vma_migratable() to make sure it reaches
>> queue_pages_to_pte_range() or queue_pages_pmd() to check if an existing
>> page was already on a node that does not follow the policy.  And,
>> non-migratable vma may be used, return -EIO too if MPOL_MF_MOVE or
>> MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL was specified.
>>
>> Tested with https://github.com/metan-ucw/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/syscalls/mbind/mbind02.c
>>
>> Fixes: 6f4576e3687b ("mempolicy: apply page table walker on queue_pages_range()")
>> Reported-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
>> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
>
> Thanks.  I think this needs stable for 4.0+, can you confirm?

Thanks. Yes, this needs stable for 4.0+.

Yang