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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
	 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 09:22:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmsgqpht.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211001215630.810592-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Fri, 1 Oct 2021 14:56:30 -0700")

Hi, Eric,

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> syzbot reported access to unitialized memory in mbind() [1]
>
> Issue came with commit bda420b98505 ("numa balancing: migrate on
> fault among multiple bound nodes")
>
> This commit added a new bit in MPOL_MODE_FLAGS, but only checked
> valid combination (MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING can only be used with MPOL_BIND)
> in do_set_mempolicy()
>
> This patch moves the check in sanitize_mpol_flags() so that it
> is also used by mbind()

Good catch!  Thanks!  When MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING is introduced, it is
intended to be used with set_memopolicy() syscall only, it is not
allowed to be used with mbind() syscall at least for now.  But I
misunderstood the original code apparently.

So I think it may be better to return EINVAL for mbind() +
MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-08  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-01 21:56 Eric Dumazet
2021-10-01 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2021-10-01 23:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2021-10-02 17:15     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-08  1:22 ` Huang, Ying [this message]

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