[PATCH v2 1/3] mm/damon/core: prevent size quota overflow in the temporal goal tuner

From: Donggeun Yoo

Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 22:34:41 EST


damos_goal_tune_esz_bp_temporal() converts the scheme's size quota into
basis points with "quota->esz_bp = quota->sz * 10000", both unsigned long,
and damos_set_effective_quota() divides the result back by 10000.
quotas/bytes is unbounded; bytes_store() hands it to kstrtoul() as is.

On 32-bit the product wraps for any size quota above ULONG_MAX / 10000,
that is 429496 bytes. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
instructs "echo $((1024*1024*1024)) > quotas/bytes", and 1 GiB * 10000 is
2500 * 2^32, so that documented value wraps to exactly zero; 256 MiB and
every multiple of it do the same. quota->esz then becomes zero while the
goal is not achieved, the trailing "if (quota->sz && quota->sz < esz)" can
only lower esz further, and damos_quota_is_full() is true on the first test
of every charge window, so the scheme applies nothing and the goal is never
approached. Other sizes are wrong without being zero: 500000 yields 70503.

While the addr_unit parameter effectively mitigates the overflow risk by
scaling down the values written to quotas/bytes, it does not fundamentally
solve the issue. Theoretically, an overflow can still occur if the scaled
value is exceptionally large. Furthermore, because addr_unit is exclusive
to the paddr operations set, vaddr and fvaddr contexts remain fully
exposed to this overflow since they take unscaled raw byte values.

The 64-bit boundary is reachable without any scaling: bytes_store() takes
whatever kstrtoul() parses, so a quotas/bytes above 1844674407370955 wraps
the multiply there too.

Bound the conversion, so a size quota it cannot represent falls to the
ULONG_MAX the function already writes for a scheme with no size quota.
Widening esz_bp instead would reach the consist tuner, which runs the same
field through damon_feed_loop_next_input(), unsigned long in and out. On
32-bit a large size quota then behaves like no size quota rather than like
a dead scheme.

Fixes: af738a6a00c1 ("mm/damon/core: introduce DAMOS_QUOTA_GOAL_TUNER_TEMPORAL")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 7.1.x
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Measured on i386 under QEMU: one paddr context with a stat scheme, the
temporal goal tuner, and one unachieved user_input goal. Each size is
written to quotas/bytes, the kdamond is started, and
quotas/effective_bytes is read back after
update_schemes_effective_quotas.

quotas/bytes effective_bytes effective_bytes
before after
4096 4096 4096
429496 429496 429496
429497 0 429496
268435456 0 429496
1073741824 0 429496
500000 70503 429496
4294967295 429495 429496
0 429496 429496

Everything the conversion can hold is unchanged, and 429496 is what the
no-size-quota row already produced before the patch.

Patch 2 pins the same boundary at ULONG_MAX / 10000 and so runs on any
word size. Without this patch it fails on x86_64:

# damos_test_esz_goal_temporal: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h:1970
Expected s->quota.esz == (~0UL) / 10000, but
s->quota.esz == 0 (0x0)
# damos_test_esz_goal_temporal: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h:1974
Expected s->quota.esz == (~0UL) / 10000, but
s->quota.esz == 1844674407370954 (0x68db8bac710ca)

mm/damon/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index 2258b72da7a78..16d4145379a2b 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -3274,7 +3274,7 @@ static void damos_goal_tune_esz_bp_temporal(struct damon_ctx *c,

if (score >= 10000)
quota->esz_bp = 0;
- else if (quota->sz)
+ else if (quota->sz && quota->sz <= ULONG_MAX / 10000)
quota->esz_bp = quota->sz * 10000;
else
quota->esz_bp = ULONG_MAX;
--
2.53.0