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Subject[PATCH v1] mm/mempolicy.c: Fix get_nodes() off-by-one error.
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set_mempolicy() and mbind() take as argument a pointer to a bit mask
(nodemask) and the number of bits in the mask the kernel will use
(maxnode), among others. For instace on a system with 2 NUMA nodes valid
masks are: 0b00, 0b01, 0b10 and 0b11 it's clear maxnode=2, however an
off-by-one error in get_nodes() the function that copies the node mask from
user space requires users to pass maxnode = 3 in this example and maxnode =
actual_maxnode + 1 in the general case. This patch fixes such error.

Signed-off-by: Luis Felipe Sandoval Castro <luis.felipe.sandoval.castro@intel.com>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 006ba62..0c2e3cd 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1265,11 +1265,10 @@ static int get_nodes(nodemask_t *nodes, const unsigned long __user *nmask,
unsigned long nlongs;
unsigned long endmask;

- --maxnode;
nodes_clear(*nodes);
- if (maxnode == 0 || !nmask)
+ if (maxnode == 1 || !nmask)
return 0;
- if (maxnode > PAGE_SIZE*BITS_PER_BYTE)
+ if (maxnode - 1 > PAGE_SIZE * BITS_PER_BYTE)
return -EINVAL;

nlongs = BITS_TO_LONGS(maxnode);
--
1.8.3.1
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