[PATCH] KVM: guest_memfd: fix NUMA interleave index double-counting

From: Michael S. Tsirkin

Date: Wed Jun 03 2026 - 12:21:39 EST


kvm_gmem_get_policy() sets *ilx to the full page offset
(vm_pgoff + vma offset). But get_vma_policy() adds the page
offset on top of *ilx, so the offset is counted twice. This
causes NUMA interleaving to skip nodes: for order-0 pages the
effective index jumps by 2 for each consecutive page.

The get_policy vm_op should return only a per-file bias in *ilx
(like shmem_get_policy does with inode->i_ino), letting
get_vma_policy() add the page-offset component.

Fix by setting *ilx to inode->i_ino instead of the full page
offset. The page offset is computed by get_vma_policy() in
mm/mempolicy.c. The full offset is still computed
in kvm_gmem_get_policy() for mpol_shared_policy_lookup().
shmem_get_policy() follows the same pattern.

Found by Sashiko (sashiko.dev) AI code review.

Fixes: ed1ffa810bd6 ("KVM: guest_memfd: Enforce NUMA mempolicy using shared policy")
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index 69c9d6d546b2..0bcf6fc08e2d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -438,11 +438,12 @@ static int kvm_gmem_set_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *mpo
}

static struct mempolicy *kvm_gmem_get_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, pgoff_t *pgoff)
+ unsigned long addr, pgoff_t *ilx)
{
struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
+ pgoff_t pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);

- *pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ *ilx = inode->i_ino;

/*
* Return the memory policy for this index, or NULL if none is set.
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ static struct mempolicy *kvm_gmem_get_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* can then replace NULL with the default memory policy instead of the
* current task's memory policy.
*/
- return mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&GMEM_I(inode)->policy, *pgoff);
+ return mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&GMEM_I(inode)->policy, pgoff);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */

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MST