+ lib-cgroup_cpusc-dont-zero-cpumasks-in-group_cpus_evenly-on-allocation.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ lib-cgroup_cpusc-dont-zero-cpumasks-in-group_cpus_evenly-on-allocation.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: lib/cgroup_cpus.c: don't zero cpumasks in group_cpus_evenly() on allocation
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     lib-cgroup_cpusc-dont-zero-cpumasks-in-group_cpus_evenly-on-allocation.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-cgroup_cpusc-dont-zero-cpumasks-in-group_cpus_evenly-on-allocation.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Subject: lib/cgroup_cpus.c: don't zero cpumasks in group_cpus_evenly() on allocation
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 12:38:59 -0800

nmsk and npresmsk are both allocated with zalloc_cpumask_var(), but they
are initialized by copying later in the code, and so may be allocated
uninitialized.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207203900.859776-6-yury.norov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/group_cpus.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/group_cpus.c~lib-cgroup_cpusc-dont-zero-cpumasks-in-group_cpus_evenly-on-allocation
+++ a/lib/group_cpus.c
@@ -347,10 +347,10 @@ struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsign
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	struct cpumask *masks = NULL;
 
-	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&nmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&npresmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&npresmsk, GFP_KERNEL))
 		goto fail_nmsk;
 
 	node_to_cpumask = alloc_node_to_cpumask();
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yury.norov@gmail.com are

cpumask-introduce-for_each_cpu_and_from.patch
lib-group_cpus-relax-atomicity-requirement-in-grp_spread_init_one.patch
lib-group_cpus-optimize-inner-loop-in-grp_spread_init_one.patch
lib-group_cpus-optimize-outer-loop-in-grp_spread_init_one.patch
lib-cgroup_cpusc-dont-zero-cpumasks-in-group_cpus_evenly-on-allocation.patch
lib-group_cpusc-drop-unneeded-cpumask_empty-call-in-__group_cpus_evenly.patch