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| author | SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2026-06-29 20:52:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-07-09 15:48:54 -0700 |
| commit | 1292c0ecb1caefb8ca064a3639d5673991e8810c (patch) | |
| tree | 980597a041ee5521339436127de87e39a3a4ad51 /tools/perf/scripts/python/event_analyzing_sample.py | |
| parent | 955b67c3ddf9912a670ed80eae7769745b4f405e (diff) | |
mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()
DAMON core logic assumes zero length regions don't exist. However, a few
DAMON API callers including DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT
allow users to set empty monitoring target regions. This could result in
WARN_ONCE() on CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY enabled kernel, and
divide-by-zero from damon_merge_two_regions().
For example, the WANR_ONCE() can be triggered like below.
# grep DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY /boot/config-$(uname -r)
# CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY=y
# damo start
# cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0
# echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/start
# echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/end
# echo commit > state
# dmesg
[....]
[ 73.705780] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 73.707552] start 0 >= end 0
[ 73.708452] WARNING: mm/damon/core.c:359 at damon_new_region+0x6e/0x80, CPU#1: kdamond.0/758
[...]
All DAMON API callers eventually use damon_set_regions() to setup the
regions. Add the validation logic in the function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630035221.146458-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 43b0536cb471 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)")
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.16.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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