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| author | SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> | 2026-04-02 06:44:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-06 11:13:43 -0700 |
| commit | 4c04c6b47c361612b1d70cec8f7a60b1482d1400 (patch) | |
| tree | be159db068af10566a2a2ff938d80641f69b7f44 | |
| parent | 894f99eb535edc4514f756818f3c4f688ba53a59 (diff) | |
mm/damon/stat: deallocate damon_call() failure leaking damon_ctx
damon_stat_start() always allocates the module's damon_ctx object
(damon_stat_context). Meanwhile, if damon_call() in the function fails,
the damon_ctx object is not deallocated. Hence, if the damon_call() is
failed, and the user writes Y to “enabled” again, the previously
allocated damon_ctx object is leaked.
This cannot simply be fixed by deallocating the damon_ctx object when
damon_call() fails. That's because damon_call() failure doesn't guarantee
the kdamond main function, which accesses the damon_ctx object, is
completely finished. In other words, if damon_stat_start() deallocates
the damon_ctx object after damon_call() failure, the not-yet-terminated
kdamond could access the freed memory (use-after-free).
Fix the leak while avoiding the use-after-free by keeping returning
damon_stat_start() without deallocating the damon_ctx object after
damon_call() failure, but deallocating it when the function is invoked
again and the kdamond is completely terminated. If the kdamond is not yet
terminated, simply return -EAGAIN, as the kdamond will soon be terminated.
The issue was discovered [1] by sashiko.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260402134418.74121-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260401012428.86694-1-sj@kernel.org [1]
Fixes: 405f61996d9d ("mm/damon/stat: use damon_call() repeat mode instead of damon_callback")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.17.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/damon/stat.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/damon/stat.c b/mm/damon/stat.c index cf2c5a541eee..60351a719460 100644 --- a/mm/damon/stat.c +++ b/mm/damon/stat.c @@ -245,6 +245,12 @@ static int damon_stat_start(void) { int err; + if (damon_stat_context) { + if (damon_is_running(damon_stat_context)) + return -EAGAIN; + damon_destroy_ctx(damon_stat_context); + } + damon_stat_context = damon_stat_build_ctx(); if (!damon_stat_context) return -ENOMEM; @@ -261,6 +267,7 @@ static void damon_stat_stop(void) { damon_stop(&damon_stat_context, 1); damon_destroy_ctx(damon_stat_context); + damon_stat_context = NULL; } static int damon_stat_enabled_store( |