get_mempolicy(2) and related syscalls have always passed 1 + number of bits in nodemask as maxnodes argument - see e.g. copy_nodes_to_user() and get_nodes(). Or libnuma, for the userland side - static void getpol(int *oldpolicy, struct bitmask *bmp) { if (get_mempolicy(oldpolicy, bmp->maskp, bmp->size + 1, 0, 0) < 0) numa_error("get_mempolicy"); } and similar for other syscalls. However, the check for insufficient destination size in get_mempolicy(2) used to be if (nmask != NULL && maxnode < MAX_NUMNODES) return -EINVAL; IOW, maxnode == MAX_NUMNODES (representing "MAX_NUMNODES - 1 bits") had been accepted. The reason why that hadn't messed libnuma logics used to determine the required bitmap size is that MAX_NUMNODES is always a power of 2 and the loop in libnuma is nodemask_sz = 16; do { nodemask_sz <<= 1; mask = realloc(mask, nodemask_sz / 8); if (!mask) return; } while (get_mempolicy(&pol, mask, nodemask_sz + 1, 0, 0) < 0 && errno == EINVAL && nodemask_sz < 4096*8); I.e. it's been passing 33, 65, 127, etc. until it got it large enough. That sidesteps the boundary case - we never try to pass exactly MAX_NUMNODES there. However, that has changed recently, when get_mempolicy() switched to if (nmask != NULL && maxnode < nr_node_ids) return -EINVAL; _That_ can trigger. Consider a box with nr_node_ids == 65. The first call in libnuma:set_nodemask_size() loop will pass 33 and fail, then we'll raise nodemask_sz to 64, allocate a 64bit mask and call get_mempolicy(&pol, mask, 65, 0, 0), which will succeed. OK, so we decide to use 64bit bitmaps, and subsequent getpol() will be passing 65 to get_mempolicy(2). Which is not a good idea, since kernel-side we'll get copy_nodes_to_user(nmask, 65, &nodes) And that will copy only 8 bytes out of kernel-side bitmap with 65 bits in it... IOW, that check always should had been <=, not <; it didn't matter until commit 050c17f239fd ("numa: change get_mempolicy() to use nr_node_ids instead of MAX_NUMNODES") this year. The fix is trivial - we need to make that check consistent with the code that does actual copyin/copyout. Fixes: 050c17f239fd ("numa: change get_mempolicy() to use nr_node_ids instead of MAX_NUMNODES") Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 4ae967bcf954..e184df7633b0 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ static int kernel_get_mempolicy(int __user *policy, addr = untagged_addr(addr); - if (nmask != NULL && maxnode < nr_node_ids) + if (nmask != NULL && maxnode <= nr_node_ids) return -EINVAL; err = do_get_mempolicy(&pval, &nodes, addr, flags);