* [PATCH 0/2] mm/damon: fix memory leak in memcg_path sysfs file
@ 2025-06-19 18:36 SeongJae Park
2025-06-19 18:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftets/damon: add a test for memcg_path leak SeongJae Park
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From: SeongJae Park @ 2025-06-19 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: SeongJae Park, Shuah Khan, damon, kernel-team, linux-kernel,
linux-kselftest, linux-mm, stable, #, 6.3.x
Users can leak memory by repeatedly writing a string to DAMOS sysfs
memcg_path file. Fix it (patch 1) and add a selftest (patch 2) to avoid
reoccurrance of the bug.
SeongJae Park (2):
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: free old damon_sysfs_scheme_filter->memcg_path
on write
selftets/damon: add a test for memcg_path leak
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/damon/Makefile | 1 +
.../selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh | 43 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh
base-commit: 05b89e828eb4f791f721cbdc65f36e1a8287a9d3
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2.39.5
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* [PATCH 2/2] selftets/damon: add a test for memcg_path leak
2025-06-19 18:36 [PATCH 0/2] mm/damon: fix memory leak in memcg_path sysfs file SeongJae Park
@ 2025-06-19 18:36 ` SeongJae Park
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: SeongJae Park @ 2025-06-19 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: SeongJae Park, Shuah Khan, damon, kernel-team, linux-kernel,
linux-kselftest, linux-mm
There was a memory leak bug in DAMOS sysfs memcg_path file. Add a
selftest to ensure the bug never comes back.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/damon/Makefile | 1 +
.../selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh | 43 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/damon/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/damon/Makefile
index ff21524be458..e888455e3cf8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/damon/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/damon/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ TEST_PROGS += reclaim.sh lru_sort.sh
# regression tests (reproducers of previously found bugs)
TEST_PROGS += sysfs_update_removed_scheme_dir.sh
TEST_PROGS += sysfs_update_schemes_tried_regions_hang.py
+TEST_PROGS += sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh
EXTRA_CLEAN = __pycache__
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..64c5d8c518a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/damon/sysfs_memcg_path_leak.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]
+then
+ echo "Run as root"
+ exit $ksft_skip
+fi
+
+damon_sysfs="/sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin"
+if [ ! -d "$damon_sysfs" ]
+then
+ echo "damon sysfs not found"
+ exit $ksft_skip
+fi
+
+# ensure filter directory
+echo 1 > "$damon_sysfs/kdamonds/nr_kdamonds"
+echo 1 > "$damon_sysfs/kdamonds/0/contexts/nr_contexts"
+echo 1 > "$damon_sysfs/kdamonds/0/contexts/0/schemes/nr_schemes"
+echo 1 > "$damon_sysfs/kdamonds/0/contexts/0/schemes/0/filters/nr_filters"
+
+filter_dir="$damon_sysfs/kdamonds/0/contexts/0/schemes/0/filters/0"
+
+before_kb=$(grep Slab /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}')
+
+# try to leak 3000 KiB
+for i in {1..102400};
+do
+ echo "012345678901234567890123456789" > "$filter_dir/memcg_path"
+done
+
+after_kb=$(grep Slab /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}')
+# expect up to 1500 KiB free from other tasks memory
+expected_after_kb_max=$((before_kb + 1500))
+
+if [ "$after_kb" -gt "$expected_after_kb_max" ]
+then
+ echo "maybe memcg_path are leaking: $before_kb -> $after_kb"
+ exit 1
+else
+ exit 0
+fi
--
2.39.5
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