Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm/damon/core-kunit: skip wrong quota goal walk in commit_quota_goals()

[SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:22:57 +0000 sashiko-bot@kernel.org wrote:

> Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
> 
> Pre-existing issues:
> - [Medium] Out-of-bounds array read in damon_test_commit_target_regions_for() due to missing region count validation before traversing dst_target.
> --
> 
> --- Patch [6]: [PATCH 6/7] mm/damon/core-kunit: skip wrong quota goal walk in commit_quota_goals() ---
> commit 4bcb5123bbb5f6b4908f1d776a8608ef05a89501
> Author: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
> Subject: mm/damon/core-kunit: skip wrong quota goal walk in commit_quota_goals()
> 
> This commit addresses an out-of-bounds array access in the KUnit test
> damos_test_commit_quota_goals_for(). If the number of created quota goals
> does not match the expected count, blindly traversing them can cause the test
> to read past the bounds of the expected values array. The patch adds a count
> validation and an early exit to avoid this invalid traversal.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713144757.39740-1-sj@kernel.org
> 
> > diff --git a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
> > index 9b8c20a50ad53..fbf986aee2dea 100644
> > --- a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
> > +++ b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
> > @@ -861,6 +862,14 @@ static void damos_test_commit_quota_goals_for(struct kunit *test,
> >  
> >  	damos_commit_quota_goals(&dst, &src);
> >  
> > +	damos_for_each_quota_goal(goal, &dst)
> > +		nr_dst++;
> > +	damos_for_each_quota_goal(goal, &src)
> > +		nr_src++;
> > +	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, nr_dst, nr_src);
> > +	if (nr_dst != nr_src)
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> >  	i = 0;
> >  	damos_for_each_quota_goal(goal, (&dst)) {
> >  		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, goal->metric, src_goals[i].metric);
> 
> [Severity: Medium]
> This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but should a similar early exit
> check be added to damon_test_commit_target_regions_for() to prevent an
> out-of-bounds read?
> 
> Just like the issue fixed here, damon_test_commit_target_regions_for()
> iterates over dst_target regions without validating the region count against
> nr_expect_regions first:
> 
> mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h:damon_test_commit_target_regions_for() {
>     ...
> 	damon_commit_target_regions(dst_target, src_target, 1);
> 	i = 0;
> 	damon_for_each_region(r, dst_target) {
> 		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.start, expect_start_end[i][0]);
> 		KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, r->ar.end, expect_start_end[i][1]);
> 		i++;
> 	}
> 	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, damon_nr_regions(dst_target), nr_expect_regions);
>     ...
> }
> 
> If damon_commit_target_regions() incorrectly leaves more regions in dst_target
> than nr_expect_regions, the loop will read past the end of the
> expect_start_end[] array before reaching the KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ count validation
> at the end of the function.

Yes, and another patch in this series fixes it.

> 
> -- 
> Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260718001442.87129-1-sj@kernel.org?part=6


Thanks,
SJ