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-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index ec80a36b324e..b28d0616f002 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2792,6 +2792,9 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
char *flags = strchr(str, '=');
int err = 1, mode;
+ if (flags)
+ *flags++ = '\0'; /* terminate mode string */
+
if (nodelist) {
/* NUL-terminate mode or flags string */
*nodelist++ = '\0';
@@ -2802,9 +2805,6 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
} else
nodes_clear(nodes);
- if (flags)
- *flags++ = '\0'; /* terminate mode string */
-
mode = match_string(policy_modes, MPOL_MAX, str);
if (mode < 0)
goto out;
@@ -2812,7 +2812,9 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
switch (mode) {
case MPOL_PREFERRED:
/*
- * Insist on a nodelist of one node only
+ * Insist on a nodelist of one node only, although later
+ * we use first_node(nodes) to grab a single node, so here
+ * nodelist (or nodes) cannot be empty.
*/
if (nodelist) {
char *rest = nodelist;
@@ -2820,6 +2822,8 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
rest++;
if (*rest)
goto out;
+ if (nodes_empty(nodes))
+ goto out;
}
break;
case MPOL_INTERLEAVE: