[RFC PATCH v1.2] mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()

From: SJ Park

Date: Sun Jun 28 2026 - 12:55:17 EST


DAMON core logic assumes zero length regions don't exist. However, a
few DAMON API callers including DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and
DAMON_LRU_SORT allow users to set empty monitoring target regions. This
could result in WARN_ONCE() on CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY enabled kernel,
and divide-by-zero from damon_merge_two_regions().

For example, the WANR_ONCE() can be triggered like below.

# grep DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY /boot/config-$(uname -r)
# CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY=y
# damo start
# cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0
# echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/start
# echo 0 > contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/end
# echo commit > state
# dmesg
[....]
[ 73.705780] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 73.707552] start 0 >= end 0
[ 73.708452] WARNING: mm/damon/core.c:359 at damon_new_region+0x6e/0x80, CPU#1: kdamond.0/758
[...]

All DAMON API callers eventually use damon_set_regions() to setup the
regions. Add the validation logic in the function.

Fixes: 43b0536cb471 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.16.x
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from RFC v1.1
- RFC v1.1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260628005723.28549-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
- Use ALIGN() for end address.
Changes from RFC v1
- RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260627170057.1867-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx
- Fixup the commit message for how the fix is made.
- Do the validation with min_region_sz-aligned addresses.

FYI, this fix cannot be applied as is to the commit that introduced this
class of bugs, because damon_set_regions() was introduced after the bug.
I considered making three fixes for each caller to make the backporting
on the old kernels easy. However, the first LTS kernel having the bug
is 6.1.y, which has damon_set_regions() and all the callers are using
it. So porting this to necessary stable kernels should be easy enough.

mm/damon/core.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c
index d99f7a297fdde..949d5309d54d3 100644
--- a/mm/damon/core.c
+++ b/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -356,6 +356,12 @@ int damon_set_regions(struct damon_target *t, struct damon_addr_range *ranges,
unsigned int i;
int err;

+ for (i = 0; i < nr_ranges; i++) {
+ if (ALIGN_DOWN(ranges[i].start, min_region_sz) >=
+ ALIGN(ranges[i].end, min_region_sz))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/* Remove regions which are not in the new ranges */
damon_for_each_region_safe(r, next, t) {
for (i = 0; i < nr_ranges; i++) {

base-commit: a5e5bb743e4c174689e5d57b25fa8c78c49546e8
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2.47.3