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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/damon/core: document damos_commit_dests() failure semantics
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:24:33 -0700
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:31:14 -0700 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hello Josh,
> 
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:13:32 +0000 Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org> wrote:
[...] 
> And Sashiko comment [2].  TL; DR: Good finding.  We aware the issue and working
> on the fix.  Nonetheless, that's out of the scope of this patch.
> 
> : Does leaving dst in a torn-down state cause a NULL pointer dereference in
> : the background kdamond thread?
[...]
> Nice catch.  We actually figured out [3] this issue from the discussion on
> Josh's previous patch that motivated this one.  And I'm working on it.

I just posted the patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/20260319145218.86197-1-sj@kernel.org


Thanks,
SJ

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