* [PATCH v3] cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed
@ 2026-07-06 8:20 David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-06 22:09 ` Tejun Heo
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm) @ 2026-07-06 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: linux-mm, cgroups, Farhad Alemi, Gregory Price, Waiman Long,
Andrew Morton, Alistair Popple, Byungchul Park, Huang, Ying,
Joshua Hahn, Matthew Brost, Rakie Kim, Rasmus Villemoes, Zi Yan,
Tejun Heo, Ridong Chen, Johannes Weiner, Michal Koutný,
stable, David Hildenbrand
From: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
Creating a child cpuset where cpuset.mems is never set leads to a div/0
when a VMA mempolicy with MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES rebinds in response to a
CPU hotplug event.
Reproduction steps:
1) Create a cgroup w/ cpuset controls (do not set cpuset.mems)
2) Move the task into the child cpuset
3) Create a VMA mempolicy for that task with MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
4) unplug and hotplug a cpu
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
5) mempolicy rebind does a div/0 in mpol_relative_nodemask on the
call to __nodes_fold()
The cpuset code passes (cs->mems_allowed) which is not guaranteed to have
nodes to the rebind routine. Use cs->effective_mems instead, which is
guaranteed to have a non-empty nodemask once we reach that code path.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+0ovCiEz6SP_sn3kN4Tb+_oC=eHMXy_Ffj=usV3wREdQrUtww@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: ae1c802382f7 ("cpuset: apply cs->effective_{cpus,mems}")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CA+0ovCgxbZkXa+OU8w3s84R3KNPNxxRfmsNR-udh+afQBbGNmw@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[ david: add a comment, slightly rephrase description ]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 591e3aa487fc1..45944b3e31ca4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -2653,7 +2653,12 @@ void cpuset_update_tasks_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs)
migrate = is_memory_migrate(cs);
- mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->mems_allowed);
+ /*
+ * For v1 we can have empty effective_mems, but we cannot
+ * attach any tasks (see cpuset_can_attach_check()). For v2,
+ * effective_mems is guaranteed to not be empty.
+ */
+ mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->effective_mems);
if (migrate)
cpuset_migrate_mm(mm, &cs->old_mems_allowed, &newmems);
else
base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
--
2.43.0
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@ 2026-07-06 22:09 ` Tejun Heo
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From: Tejun Heo @ 2026-07-06 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Cc: Farhad Alemi, linux-kernel, linux-mm, cgroups, Gregory Price,
Waiman Long, Andrew Morton, Alistair Popple, Byungchul Park,
Huang, Ying, Joshua Hahn, Matthew Brost, Rakie Kim,
Rasmus Villemoes, Zi Yan, Ridong Chen, Johannes Weiner,
Michal Koutny
Hello,
Applied to cgroup/for-7.2-fixes.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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