The patch titled
Subject: mm/mempolicy: remove redundant check in get_nodes
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-mempolicy-remove-redundant-check-in-get_nodes.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mempolicy-remove-redundant-check-in-get_nodes.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mempolicy-remove-redundant-check-in-get_nodes.patch
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From: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mempolicy: remove redundant check in get_nodes
We have already checked whether maxnode is a page worth of bits, by:
maxnode > PAGE_SIZE*BITS_PER_BYTE
So no need to check it once more.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510882624-44342-2-git-send-email-xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Salls <salls@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tan Xiaojun <tanxiaojun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-remove-redundant-check-in-get_nodes mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-remove-redundant-check-in-get_nodes
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1282,8 +1282,6 @@ static int get_nodes(nodemask_t *nodes,
/* When the user specified more nodes than supported just check
if the non supported part is all zero. */
if (nlongs > BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES)) {
- if (nlongs > PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(long))
- return -EINVAL;
for (k = BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES); k < nlongs; k++) {
unsigned long t;
if (get_user(t, nmask + k))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-mempolicy-remove-redundant-check-in-get_nodes.patch
mm-mempolicy-fix-the-check-of-nodemask-from-user.patch
mm-mempolicy-add-nodes_empty-check-in-sysc_migrate_pages.patch
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