Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, David Rientjes wrote:

> It would be possible to do all of this in both sys_set_mempolicy() and 
> sys_mbind() by masking off the set of possible modes and checking the 
> result for being >= MPOL_MAX:
> 
> 	if ((mode & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS) >= MPOL_MAX)
> 		return -EINVAL;

Actually, in sys_setmempolicy() or sys_mbind() where mode is an int:

	unsigned short flags;

	flags = mode & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
	mode &= ~MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
	if (mode < 0 || mode >= MPOL_MAX)
		return -EINVAL;
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