[RFC PATCH 4/6] mm: mempolicy: Add and expose mpol_create

[Ackerley Tng]

mpol_create builds a mempolicy based on mode, nmask and maxnode.

mpol_create is exposed for use in memfd_restricted_bind() in a later
patch.

Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/mempolicy.h |  2 ++
 mm/mempolicy.c            | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index 9a2a2dd95432..15facd9de087 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ struct shared_policy {
 };
 
 int vma_dup_policy(struct vm_area_struct *src, struct vm_area_struct *dst);
+struct mempolicy *mpol_create(
+	unsigned long mode, const unsigned long __user *nmask, unsigned long maxnode)
 void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol);
 int __mpol_set_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *info, struct mempolicy *mpol,
 			     unsigned long pgoff_start, unsigned long npages);
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index f3fa5494e4a8..f4fe241c17ff 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -3181,3 +3181,42 @@ void mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol)
 		p += scnprintf(p, buffer + maxlen - p, ":%*pbl",
 			       nodemask_pr_args(&nodes));
 }
+
+/**
+ * mpol_create - build mempolicy based on mode, nmask and maxnode
+ * @mode:  policy mode, as in MPOL_MODE_FLAGS
+ * @nmask:  node mask from userspace
+ * @maxnode:  number of valid bits in nmask
+ *
+ * Will allocate a new struct mempolicy that has to be released with
+ * mpol_put. Will also take and release the write lock mmap_lock in current->mm.
+ */
+struct mempolicy *mpol_create(
+	unsigned long mode, const unsigned long __user *nmask, unsigned long maxnode)
+{
+	int err;
+	unsigned short mode_flags;
+	nodemask_t nodes;
+	int lmode = mode;
+	struct mempolicy *mpol;
+
+	err = sanitize_mpol_flags(&lmode, &mode_flags);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+	err = get_nodes(&nodes, nmask, maxnode);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+	mpol = mpol_new(mode, mode_flags, &nodes);
+	if (IS_ERR(mpol))
+		return mpol;
+
+	err = mpol_init_from_nodemask(mpol, &nodes, true);
+	if (err) {
+		mpol_put(mpol);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+	}
+
+	return mpol;
+}
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