Re: [PATCH v1.1 0/6] mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races
From: SJ Park
Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 23:34:12 EST
On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:09:55 -0700 SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sashiko found a few issues in DAMON that could cause infinite loop, NULL
> dereference and monitoring results degradation. The first two sounds
> scary but the infinite loop happens only under unreasonable user setup.
> The NULL dereference is only in a unit test. Monitoring results
> degradation is trivial since it is only best-effort, and those happens
> from only unlikely races. Still those are bugs that better to fix if
> possible. Fix those.
Sashiko found no blocker for this series. Sashiko sent findings to damon@
mailing list [1], and I replied to all the comments. Please read those for
details.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/damon/
Thanks,
SJ
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