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From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>,
	damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:00:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260627170057.1867-1-sj@kernel.org> (raw)

DAMON core logic assumes zero length regions don't exist.  However, a
few DAMON API callers including DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and
DAMON_LRU_SORT allow users to set empty monitoring target regions.  This
could result in WARN_ONCE() on CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY enabled kernel,
and divide-by-zero from damon_merge_two_regions().

For example, the WANR_ONCE() can be triggered like below.

    # grep DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY /boot/config-$(uname -r)
    # CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY=y
    # damo start
    # cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0
    # echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/start
    # echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/end
    # echo commit > state
    # dmesg
    [....]
    [   73.705780] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [   73.707552] start 0 >= end 0
    [   73.708452] WARNING: mm/damon/core.c:359 at damon_new_region+0x6e/0x80, CPU#1: kdamond.0/758
    [...]

Disallow empty region user inputs by updating the validation logic.

Fixes: 43b0536cb471 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.16.x
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 mm/damon/core.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 7e4b9affc5b06..b3100d7fa5596 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -358,6 +358,11 @@ int damon_set_regions(struct damon_target *t, struct damon_addr_range *ranges,
 	unsigned int i;
 	int err;
 
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_ranges; i++) {
+		if (ranges[i].start >= ranges[i].end)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	/* Remove regions which are not in the new ranges */
 	damon_for_each_region_safe(r, next, t) {
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_ranges; i++) {

base-commit: f5cde2d41633df3fb1965efa00bfa827ca41836c
-- 
2.47.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-27 17:01 UTC|newest]

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2026-06-27 17:00 SeongJae Park [this message]
2026-06-27 17:26 ` [RFC PATCH] mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions() SeongJae Park

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