Re: [PATCH 6.6.y] mm/damon/lru_sort: avoid divide-by-zero in damon_lru_sort_apply_parameters()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 08:37:11PM -0700, SeongJae Park wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:33:50 -0700 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>
> > 
> > Patch series "mm/damon: avoid divide-by-zero in DAMON module's parameters
> > application".
> > 
> > DAMON's RECLAIM and LRU_SORT modules perform no validation on
> > user-configured parameters during application, which may lead to
> > division-by-zero errors.
> > 
> > Avoid the divide-by-zero by adding validation checks when DAMON modules
> > attempt to apply the parameters.
> > 
> > This patch (of 2):
> > 
> > During the calculation of 'hot_thres' and 'cold_thres', either
> > 'sample_interval' or 'aggr_interval' is used as the divisor, which may
> > lead to division-by-zero errors.  Fix it by directly returning -EINVAL
> > when such a case occurs.  Additionally, since 'aggr_interval' is already
> > required to be set no smaller than 'sample_interval' in damon_set_attrs(),
> > only the case where 'sample_interval' is zero needs to be checked.
> > 
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250827115858.1186261-2-yanquanmin1@huawei.com
> > Fixes: 40e983cca927 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based LRU-lists Sorting")
> > Signed-off-by: Quanmin Yan <yanquanmin1@huawei.com>
> > Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> > Cc: ze zuo <zuoze1@huawei.com>
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.0+]
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > (cherry picked from commit 711f19dfd783ffb37ca4324388b9c4cb87e71363)
> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
> 
> FYI, the commit was able to be cleanly cherry-picked, but seems it caused a
> build error, similar to that [1] for 6.1.y.  This patch fixes the build error.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250914033221.49447-1-sj@kernel.org

Wonderful, thank you.

greg k-h