[PATCH v4 1/2] mm/damon/core: prevent size quota overflow in the temporal goal tuner
From: Donggeun Yoo
Date: Tue Sep 22 2026 - 20:27:06 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. A wrapped product below 10000 divides
to a zero effective quota: 429497 gives 0. damos_quota_is_full() is
then true on the first test of every charge window. Other wrapped
values are wrong without being zero: 500000 gives 70503.
Triggering this needs a scheme with a quota goal, the temporal goal
tuner, and a size quota above ULONG_MAX / 10000 -- 429496 bytes on
32-bit, 1844674407370955 on 64-bit. The scheme then makes no
progress for as long as the goal is unachieved, which is easy to
notice, and writing a smaller size quota restores it. Nothing is
corrupted and nothing leaks. This is unlikely to be hit on a tested
setup.
addr_unit does not cover this. It only scales the numbers a paddr
context writes to quotas/bytes, so a large enough scaled value wraps
just the same, and vaddr and fvaddr contexts take raw byte values.
Bound the multiply.
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 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
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 4687b909d42c9..4716693ec0dc5 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -3275,7 +3275,7 @@ 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;
--
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