[PATCH 6.6.y] mm/damon/core: make damon_start() waits until kdamond_fn() starts

[PATCH 6.6.y] mm/damon/core: make damon_start() waits until kdamond_fn() starts

[SeongJae Park]

The cleanup tasks of kdamond threads including reset of corresponding
DAMON context's ->kdamond field and decrease of global nr_running_ctxs
counter is supposed to be executed by kdamond_fn().  However, commit
0f91d13366a4 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism") made neither
damon_start() nor damon_stop() ensure the corresponding kdamond has
started the execution of kdamond_fn().

As a result, the cleanup can be skipped if damon_stop() is called fast
enough after the previous damon_start().  Especially the skipped reset
of ->kdamond could cause a use-after-free.

Fix it by waiting for start of kdamond_fn() execution from
damon_start().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208175018.63880-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 0f91d13366a4 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jakub Acs <acsjakub@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.15.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 6376a824595607e99d032a39ba3394988b4fce96)
---
 include/linux/damon.h | 2 ++
 mm/damon/core.c       | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h
index c70cca8a839f..e9e8ed92567a 100644
--- a/include/linux/damon.h
+++ b/include/linux/damon.h
@@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ struct damon_ctx {
 /* private: internal use only */
 	struct timespec64 last_aggregation;
 	struct timespec64 last_ops_update;
+	/* for waiting until the execution of the kdamond_fn is started */
+	struct completion kdamond_started;
 
 /* public: */
 	struct task_struct *kdamond;
diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index fd5be73f699f..191bc87b2441 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ struct damon_ctx *damon_new_ctx(void)
 	if (!ctx)
 		return NULL;
 
+	init_completion(&ctx->kdamond_started);
+
 	ctx->attrs.sample_interval = 5 * 1000;
 	ctx->attrs.aggr_interval = 100 * 1000;
 	ctx->attrs.ops_update_interval = 60 * 1000 * 1000;
@@ -626,11 +628,14 @@ static int __damon_start(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
 	mutex_lock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
 	if (!ctx->kdamond) {
 		err = 0;
+		reinit_completion(&ctx->kdamond_started);
 		ctx->kdamond = kthread_run(kdamond_fn, ctx, "kdamond.%d",
 				nr_running_ctxs);
 		if (IS_ERR(ctx->kdamond)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(ctx->kdamond);
 			ctx->kdamond = NULL;
+		} else {
+			wait_for_completion(&ctx->kdamond_started);
 		}
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->kdamond_lock);
@@ -1370,6 +1375,8 @@ static int kdamond_fn(void *data)
 
 	pr_debug("kdamond (%d) starts\n", current->pid);
 
+	complete(&ctx->kdamond_started);
+
 	if (ctx->ops.init)
 		ctx->ops.init(ctx);
 	if (ctx->callback.before_start && ctx->callback.before_start(ctx))
-- 
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