From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,stable@vger.kernel.org,sj@kernel.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-damonn-lru_sort-handle-ctx-allocation-failure.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:26:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260603232628.DB2F31F00893@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-damonn-lru_sort-handle-ctx-allocation-failure.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 17:01:03 -0700
DAMON_LRU_SORT allocates the damon_ctx object for its kdamond in its init
function. damon_lru_sort_enabled_store() wrongly assumes the allocation
will always succeed once tried. If the damon_ctx allocation was failed,
therefore, code execution reaches to damon_commit_ctx() while 'ctx' is
NULL. As a result, it dereferences the NULL 'ctx' pointer. Avoid the
NULL dereference by returning -ENOMEM if 'ctx' is NULL.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260529000104.7006-3-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: c4a8e662c839 ("mm/damon/lru_sort: use damon_initialized()")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.18.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/damon/lru_sort.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/damon/lru_sort.c~mm-damonn-lru_sort-handle-ctx-allocation-failure
+++ a/mm/damon/lru_sort.c
@@ -437,6 +437,10 @@ static int damon_lru_sort_enabled_store(
if (!damon_initialized())
return 0;
+ /* damon_modules_new_paddr_ctx_target() in the init function failed. */
+ if (!ctx)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
return damon_lru_sort_turn(enabled);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@kernel.org are
maintainers-add-testing-abi-documents-for-mm.patch
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