Re: [PATCH v7] numa: make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 05:34:28PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> When passing the return value of dev_to_node() to cpumask_of_node()
> without checking if the device's node id is NUMA_NO_NODE, there is
> global-out-of-bounds detected by KASAN.
> 
> From the discussion [1], NUMA_NO_NODE really means no node affinity,
> which also means all cpus should be usable. So the cpumask_of_node()
> should always return all cpus online when user passes the node id as
> NUMA_NO_NODE, just like similar semantic that page allocator handles
> NUMA_NO_NODE.
> 
> But we cannot really copy the page allocator logic. Simply because the
> page allocator doesn't enforce the near node affinity. It just picks it
> up as a preferred node but then it is free to fallback to any other numa
> node. This is not the case here and node_to_cpumask_map will only restrict
> to the particular node's cpus which would have really non deterministic
> behavior depending on where the code is executed. So in fact we really
> want to return cpu_online_mask for NUMA_NO_NODE.
> 
> Also there is a debugging version of node_to_cpumask_map() for x86 and
> arm64, which is only used when CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is defined, this
> patch changes it to handle NUMA_NO_NODE as normal node_to_cpumask_map().
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/11/66
> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> # MIPS bits

Still:

Nacked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>