[PATCH resend v6 02/30] mm: mempolicy: fix interleave index for unaligned VMA start

From: Michael S. Tsirkin

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 05:10:08 EST


The NUMA interleave index formula (addr - vm_start) >> shift
gives wrong results when vm_start is not aligned to the folio
size: the subtraction before the shift allows low bits to
affect the result via borrows.

Use (addr >> shift) - (vm_start >> shift) instead, which
independently aligns both values before computing the
difference.

No functional change for current callers: the fix only affects
NUMA interleave and weighted-interleave policies. Current
large-order callers either pre-align the address
(vma_alloc_anon_folio_pmd) or do not use NUMA interleave
(drm_pagemap). All other callers use order 0 where the old
and new formulas are equivalent. However subsequent patches
in this series add large-order callers that pass unaligned
fault addresses, making this fix necessary.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 6832cc68120f..39e556e3d263 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2049,7 +2049,8 @@ struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (pol->mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE ||
pol->mode == MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE) {
*ilx += vma->vm_pgoff >> order;
- *ilx += (addr - vma->vm_start) >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order);
+ *ilx += (addr >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order)) -
+ (vma->vm_start >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order));
}
return pol;
}
--
MST