[RFC PATCH 0/2] mm/damon/{reclaim,lru_sort}: handle ctx allocation failures

From: SeongJae Park

Date: Thu May 28 2026 - 02:13:17 EST


DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT could dereference NULL pointers if
their damon_ctx object allocations fail. The bug is expected to happen
not frequently,, because the allocation is arguably too small to fail on
common setup. But theoretically it is possible and the consequence is
bad. Fix those.

The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260419014800.877-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx

SeongJae Park (2):
mm/damon/reclaim: handle ctx allocation failure
mm/damonn/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure

mm/damon/lru_sort.c | 4 ++++
mm/damon/reclaim.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)


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