+ samples-damon-wsse-stop-and-free-damon-ctx-when-damon_call-fails.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: samples/damon/wsse: stop and free damon ctx when damon_call() fails
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     samples-damon-wsse-stop-and-free-damon-ctx-when-damon_call-fails.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/samples-damon-wsse-stop-and-free-damon-ctx-when-damon_call-fails.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: samples/damon/wsse: stop and free damon ctx when damon_call() fails
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:54:44 -0700

damon_sample_wsse_start() calls damon_call() right after damon_start() is
succeeded.  The kdamond that has started by the damon_start() could be
terminated by itself before or in the middle of the damon_call()
execution.  There could be multiple reasons for such a stop including
monitoring target process termination and kdamond_fn() internal memory
allocation failures.  In the case, damon_call() will fail and return an
error without cleaning up the DAMON context object.  The
damon_sample_wsse_start() caller assumes it would clean up the object,
though.  When the user requests to start DAMON again,
damon_sample_wsse_start() is called again, allocates a new DAMON context
object and overwrites the pointer for the previous object.  As a result,
the previous context object is leaked.

Safely stop the kdamond and deallocate the context object when the failure
is returned.  Note that the kdamond should be stopped first, because
damon_call() failure means not complete termination of the kdamond but
only the fact that the termination process has started.

The user impact shouldn't be that significant because the race is not easy
to happen, and only up to one DAMON context object can be leaked per race.

The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260628215447.96166-6-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260610034828.4632-1-sj@kernel.org [1]
Fixes: cc9c1b8c205b ("samples/damon/wsse: use damon_call() repeat mode instead of damon_callback")
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.17.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 samples/damon/wsse.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/samples/damon/wsse.c~samples-damon-wsse-stop-and-free-damon-ctx-when-damon_call-fails
+++ a/samples/damon/wsse.c
@@ -92,7 +92,12 @@ static int damon_sample_wsse_start(void)
 		return err;
 	}
 	repeat_call_control.data = ctx;
-	return damon_call(ctx, &repeat_call_control);
+	err = damon_call(ctx, &repeat_call_control);
+	if (err) {
+		damon_stop(&ctx, 1);
+		damon_destroy_ctx(ctx);
+	}
+	return err;
 }
 
 static void damon_sample_wsse_stop(void)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@kernel.org are

mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-fix-dir-put-orders-in-access_pattern_add_dirs.patch
mm-damon-sysfs-schemes-put-stats-for-scheme_add_dirs-internal-error.patch
mm-damon-ops-common-handle-extreme-intervals-in-damon_hot_score.patch
maintainers-s-seongjae-sj.patch
samples-damon-wsse-handle-damon_start-failure.patch
samples-damon-prcl-handle-damon_start-failure.patch
samples-damon-mtier-handle-damon_start-failure.patch
samples-damon-mtier-handle-damon_stop-failure.patch
samples-damon-wsse-stop-and-free-damon-ctx-when-damon_call-fails.patch
samples-damon-prcl-stop-and-free-damon-ctx-when-damon_call-fails.patch