Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 5/9] sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Mar 22 2023 - 17:09:24 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 1:09 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The getaffinity() system call uses 'cpumask_size()' to decide how big
> the CPU mask is - so far so good. It is indeed the allocation size of a
> cpumask. [...]

Same comment as about commit 8ca09d5fa354 - this is a fine cleanup /
fix and might be worth backporting just for that, but it didn't really
turn into an actual visible bug until commit 596ff4a09b89.

Linus