The patch titled Subject: migrate: hugetlb: check for hugetlb shared PMD in node migration has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is migrate-hugetlb-check-for-hugetlb-shared-pmd-in-node-migration.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/migrate-hugetlb-check-for-hugetlb-shared-pmd-in-node-migration.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: migrate: hugetlb: check for hugetlb shared PMD in node migration Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:27:21 -0800 migrate_pages/mempolicy semantics state that CAP_SYS_NICE is required to move pages shared with another process to a different node. page_mapcount > 1 is being used to determine if a hugetlb page is shared. However, a hugetlb page will have a mapcount of 1 if mapped by multiple processes via a shared PMD. As a result, hugetlb pages shared by multiple processes and mapped with a shared PMD can be moved by a process without CAP_SYS_NICE. To fix, check for a shared PMD if mapcount is 1. If a shared PMD is found consider the page shared. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230126222721.222195-3-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: e2d8cf405525 ("migrate: add hugepage migration code to migrate_pages()") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~migrate-hugetlb-check-for-hugetlb-shared-pmd-in-node-migration +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -600,7 +600,8 @@ static int queue_pages_hugetlb(pte_t *pt /* With MPOL_MF_MOVE, we migrate only unshared hugepage. */ if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL) || - (flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE && page_mapcount(page) == 1)) { + (flags & MPOL_MF_MOVE && page_mapcount(page) == 1 && + !hugetlb_pmd_shared(pte))) { if (isolate_hugetlb(page, qp->pagelist) && (flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT)) /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb-proc-check-for-hugetlb-shared-pmd-in-proc-pid-smaps.patch migrate-hugetlb-check-for-hugetlb-shared-pmd-in-node-migration.patch