[PATCH] cpuset: allow a larger buffer for writes to cpuset files

When using fake NUMA setup, the number of memory nodes can greatly exceed
the number of CPUs.  So the current limit in cpuset_common_file_write() is
insufficient.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 4ef1d29297ca..0a6b4d89f9a0 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -1280,7 +1280,8 @@ typedef enum {
         FILE_TASKLIST,
 } cpuset_filetype_t;
 
-static ssize_t cpuset_common_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
+static ssize_t cpuset_common_file_write(struct file *file,
+                                        const char __user *userbuf,
                                         size_t nbytes, loff_t *unused_ppos)
 {
         struct cpuset *cs = __d_cs(file->f_dentry->d_parent);
@@ -1291,7 +1292,7 @@ static ssize_t cpuset_common_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *us
         int retval = 0;
 
         /* Crude upper limit on largest legitimate cpulist user might write. */
-        if (nbytes > 100 + 6 * NR_CPUS)
+        if (nbytes > 100 + 6 * max(NR_CPUS, MAX_NUMNODES))
                 return -E2BIG;
 
         /* +1 for nul-terminator */