mempolicy: mask off internal flags for userspace API

Flags considered internal to the mempolicy kernel code are stored as part
of the "flags" member of struct mempolicy.

Before exposing a policy type to userspace via get_mempolicy(), these
internal flags must be masked.  Flags exposed to userspace, however,
should still be returned to the user.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index a37a503..c94e58b 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -729,7 +729,11 @@ static long do_get_mempolicy(int *policy, nodemask_t *nmask,
        } else {
                *policy = pol == &default_policy ? MPOL_DEFAULT :
                                                pol->mode;
-               *policy |= pol->flags;
+               /*
+                * Internal mempolicy flags must be masked off before exposing
+                * the policy to userspace.
+                */
+               *policy |= (pol->flags & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS);
        }
 
        if (vma) {