[PATCH v2] cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed

From: Farhad Alemi

Date: Sun Jun 14 2026 - 09:28:27 EST


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.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CA+0ovCgxbZkXa+OU8w3s84R3KNPNxxRfmsNR-udh+afQBbGNmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+0ovCiEz6SP_sn3kN4Tb+_oC=eHMXy_Ffj=usV3wREdQrUtww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: ae1c802382f7 ("cpuset: apply cs->effective_{cpus,mems}")
Suggested-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
v2: rebind to cs->effective_mems instead of newmems (Waiman Long);
condense the changelog.

kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -2649,7 +2649,7 @@ void cpuset_update_tasks_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs)

migrate = is_memory_migrate(cs);

- mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->mems_allowed);
+ mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->effective_mems);
if (migrate)
cpuset_migrate_mm(mm, &cs->old_mems_allowed, &newmems);
else
--
2.43.0