FAILED: patch "[PATCH] samples/damon/mtier: fail early if address range parameters" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 7746d72c64054976887928d64d2caf25c5a6dcc0
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026072008-humongous-quintuple-a2a9@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 7746d72c64054976887928d64d2caf25c5a6dcc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:44:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] samples/damon/mtier: fail early if address range parameters
 are invalid

The comment on top of `struct damon_region` clearly says that

    For any use case, @ar should be non-zero positive size.

which is now verified in damon_verify_new_region() if the kernel is built
with DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY.

The WARN_ONCE() can be triggered if the mtier sample module is enabled
before node{0,1}_{start,end}_addr have been properly initialized, which is
obviously not good.

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 start 0 >= end 0
 WARNING: mm/damon/core.c:217 at damon_new_region+0xf4/0x118, CPU#59: bash/341468
 Call trace:
  damon_new_region+0xf4/0x118 (P)
  damon_set_regions+0xfc/0x3c0
  damon_sample_mtier_build_ctx+0xe8/0x3a8
  damon_sample_mtier_start+0x1c/0x90
  damon_sample_mtier_enable_store+0x98/0xb0
  param_attr_store+0xb4/0x128
  module_attr_store+0x2c/0x50
  sysfs_kf_write+0x58/0x90
  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x16c/0x238
  vfs_write+0x2c0/0x370
  ksys_write+0x74/0x118
  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
  invoke_syscall+0xa8/0x118
  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
  el0_svc+0x54/0x370
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
  el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Note that the same issue can happen if detect_node_addresses is true, and
node 0 or 1 is memoryless.  Fix it together by checking the validity of
parameters right before damon_new_region() and fail early if they're
invalid.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629144432.133962-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 82a08bde3cf7 ("samples/damon: implement a DAMON module for memory tiering")
Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.16.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/samples/damon/mtier.c b/samples/damon/mtier.c
index eb1143de8df1..3785b0c7ffb1 100644
--- a/samples/damon/mtier.c
+++ b/samples/damon/mtier.c
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ static struct damon_ctx *damon_sample_mtier_build_ctx(bool promote)
 		addr.end = promote ? node1_end_addr : node0_end_addr;
 	}
 
+	if (addr.start >= addr.end)
+		goto free_out;
+
 	range.start = addr.start;
 	range.end = addr.end;