[PATCH v2] samples/damon/mtier: fail early if address range parameters are invalid

From: Zenghui Yu

Date: Tue Jun 09 2026 - 02:51:18 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
* From v1 [1]:
- take into account the detect_node_addresses case (Sashiko)
- based on mm-new (SeongJae)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260608111534.264-1-yuzenghui@xxxxxxxxxx

samples/damon/mtier.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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;

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2.33.0