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From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm/damon/sysfs: read ops_id only once
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:04:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260711180409.82093-6-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260711180409.82093-1-sj@kernel.org>

damon_sysfs_apply_inputs() reads ops_id twice.  It could race with
ops_id_store().  As a result, the min_region_sz could wrongly be set up.
Read it once.

The user impact is trivial.  Sane users ain't update the parameter in
parallel.  Even if it happens, only monitoring itself runs differently
than expected.  No critical consequences like kernel panic or memory
corruption happen.

The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260703172417.95426-1-sj@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
 mm/damon/sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/sysfs.c b/mm/damon/sysfs.c
index b5fe036f78015..60a1a9e4ada34 100644
--- a/mm/damon/sysfs.c
+++ b/mm/damon/sysfs.c
@@ -2094,14 +2094,16 @@ static inline bool damon_sysfs_kdamond_running(
 static int damon_sysfs_apply_inputs(struct damon_ctx *ctx,
 		struct damon_sysfs_context *sys_ctx)
 {
+	enum damon_ops_id ops_id;
 	int err;
 
-	err = damon_select_ops(ctx, sys_ctx->ops_id);
+	ops_id = READ_ONCE(sys_ctx->ops_id);
+	err = damon_select_ops(ctx, ops_id);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 	ctx->addr_unit = sys_ctx->addr_unit;
 	/* addr_unit is respected by only DAMON_OPS_PADDR */
-	if (sys_ctx->ops_id == DAMON_OPS_PADDR)
+	if (ops_id == DAMON_OPS_PADDR)
 		ctx->min_region_sz = max(
 				DAMON_MIN_REGION_SZ / sys_ctx->addr_unit, 1);
 	ctx->pause = sys_ctx->pause;
-- 
2.47.3


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-11 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-11 18:04 [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races SJ Park
2026-07-11 18:04 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm/damon/core: avoid infinite kdamond_merge_regions() internal loop SJ Park
2026-07-11 18:04 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: catch test failure in test_merge_regions_of() SJ Park
2026-07-11 18:04 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm/damon/vaddr: drop last same folio access check optimization SJ Park
2026-07-11 18:04 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm/damon/paddr: drop last same folio access check reuse optimization SJ Park
2026-07-11 18:04 ` SJ Park [this message]

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