kernel/linux.git/mm, branch v6.18.42

mm/damon/core: disallow overlapping input ranges for damon_set_regions()

2026-08-03T09:22:12+00:00

commit 954157679ec34661c2e87e7eb796104a797c32db upstream. damon_set_regions() assumes the input ranges are sorted by the address and don't overlap each other. Hence the assumption was initially to be explicitly validated. But commit 97d482f4592f ("mm/damon/sysfs: reuse damon_set_regions() for regions setting") has mistakenly removed the validation. This can make DAMON behave in unexpected ways. At the best, the monitoring results snapshot will just look weird since there will be overlapping regions. DAMOS will also work weirdly, applying the same action multiple times for overlapping regions, and make DAMOS quota weird. More seriously, depending on the setup and regions updates sequence, negative size regions can be made. It will trigger WARN_ONCE() if the kernel is built with CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY=y. Depending on the monitoring results, the negative size region can further trigger division by zero in damon_merge_two_regions(). Note that some of the consequences including the WARN_ONCE() and the divide by zero depend on commits that were introduced after the root cause commit 97d482f4592f ("mm/damon/sysfs: reuse damon_set_regions() for regions setting"). Fix the problems by checking the assumption and returning an error if the input ranges don't meet the assumption. The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260703165610.92894-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630041806.151124-1-sj@kernel.org [1] Fixes: 97d482f4592f ("mm/damon/sysfs: reuse damon_set_regions() for regions setting") Signed-off-by: SJ Park Cc: # 5.19.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: SJ Park Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()

2026-08-03T09:22:12+00:00

commit 1292c0ecb1caefb8ca064a3639d5673991e8810c upstream. 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. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630035221.146458-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 43b0536cb471 ("mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)") Signed-off-by: SJ Park Cc: Yang yingliang Cc: # 5.16.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: SJ Park Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/sparse-vmemmap: fix vmemmap accounting underflow

2026-08-03T09:22:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit c373f7f98e6ad591c85d40548cf8b6443be69311 ] Patch series "mm: Fix vmemmap optimization accounting and initialization", v8. The series fixes several bugs in vmemmap optimization, mainly around incorrect page accounting and memmap initialization in DAX and memory hotplug paths. It also fixes pageblock migratetype initialization and struct page initialization for ZONE_DEVICE compound pages. Patches 1-4 fix vmemmap accounting issues. Patch 1 fixes an accounting underflow in the section activation failure path by moving vmemmap page accounting into the lower-level allocation and freeing helpers. Patch 2 fixes incorrect altmap passing in the memory hotplug error path. Patch 3 passes pgmap through memory deactivation paths so the teardown side can determine whether vmemmap optimization was in effect. Patch 4 uses that information to account the optimized DAX vmemmap size correctly. Patches 5-6 fix initialization issues in mm/mm_init. One makes sure all pageblocks in ZONE_DEVICE compound pages get their migratetype initialized. The other fixes a case where DAX memory hotplug reuses an unoptimized early-section memmap while compound_nr_pages() still assumes vmemmap optimization, leaving tail struct pages uninitialized. This patch (of 6): In section_activate(), if populate_section_memmap() fails, the error handling path calls section_deactivate() to roll back the state. This causes a vmemmap accounting imbalance. Since commit c3576889d87b ("mm: fix accounting of memmap pages"), memmap pages are accounted for only after populate_section_memmap() succeeds. However, the failure path unconditionally calls section_deactivate(), which decreases the vmemmap count. Consequently, a failure in populate_section_memmap() leads to an accounting underflow, incorrectly reducing the system's tracked vmemmap usage. Fix this more thoroughly by moving all accounting calls into the lower level functions that actually perform the vmemmap allocation and freeing: - populate_section_memmap() accounts for newly allocated vmemmap pages - depopulate_section_memmap() unaccounts when vmemmap is freed This ensures proper accounting in all code paths, including error handling and early section cases. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428081855.1249045-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428081855.1249045-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com Fixes: c3576889d87b ("mm: fix accounting of memmap pages") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: set PG_has_hwpoisoned only after new folio head is established

2026-08-03T09:22:01+00:00

commit e1cd30eceb6908fc13bebce41283b885d71ee8d6 upstream. __split_folio_to_order() copies the hwpoison state onto each new sub-folio while splitting a folio to a non-zero order. It does so via if (handle_hwpoison && page_range_has_hwpoisoned(new_head, new_nr_pages)) folio_set_has_hwpoisoned(new_folio); *before* clear_compound_head(new_head)/prep_compound_page(new_head, ...) turns @new_head from a tail page into a proper folio head. PG_has_hwpoisoned is a FOLIO_SECOND_PAGE flag, so folio_set_has_hwpoisoned() resolves to folio_flags(folio, 1). With the new compound_info-based page-flags layout, folio_flags() asserts the page is not a tail: VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(page->compound_info & 1, page); VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(n > 0 && !test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags.f), page); At the current call site @new_head still has the tail marker (compound_info bit 0 set, PG_head clear), so on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM kernels this hits: kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:354 folio_flags+0x82 folio_set_has_hwpoisoned __split_folio_to_order __split_unmapped_folio __folio_split truncate_inode_partial_folio (shmem hole-punch / MADV_REMOVE) Reproduced by syzkaller: hwpoison-inject a few subpages of a large shmem folio, then MADV_REMOVE (fallocate punch hole) on the same range, which splits the partial folio to a non-zero order. memory_failure() tries to split the poisoned folio to order 0 first, but that split is best-effort; when it fails the folio is left large with PG_has_hwpoisoned set, the case fa5a06170036 added this hwpoison copying for. Move the folio_set_has_hwpoisoned() call to after clear_compound_head()/prep_compound_page(), where @new_folio is a real order-new_order head folio (handle_hwpoison implies new_order != 0, so a second page always exists). The flag still lands on the same struct page (page[1] of the new folio); only the ordering relative to compound-head setup changes, satisfying the FOLIO_SECOND_PAGE precondition. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260701174235.3173401-1-riel@surriel.com Fixes: fa5a06170036 ("mm/huge_memory: preserve PG_has_hwpoisoned if a folio is split to >0 order") Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Tested-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/kmemleak: fix checksum computation for per-cpu objects

2026-08-03T09:22:01+00:00

commit 79c37ae3733e93d9d8ea12ecb44f717e61439024 upstream. The per-cpu object checksum folds each CPU's CRC together with XOR and seeds every CRC with 0. Both choices make update_checksum() miss content changes: - XOR is self-cancelling, so equal contents on two CPUs cancel out and simultaneous identical changes leave the checksum unchanged. - crc32(0, ...) over all-zero content is 0, so a freshly allocated, zeroed per-cpu area checksums to 0, matching the initial value, and the object is never seen to change. See discussions at [0]. When update_checksum() wrongly reports an actively modified object as unchanged, kmemleak stops greying it for an extra scan and can report a live per-cpu object as a leak. Fold the per-cpu CRC as a single rolling checksum across all CPUs and initialise the object checksum to ~0 so the first computed value always registers as a change, even for content that hashes to 0. reset_checksum() is seeded the same way. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/akfYImSNDh3OjIfR@gmail.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260703-kmemleak_checksum-v1-1-5e0ab7d6966f@debian.org Fixes: 6c99d4eb7c5e ("kmemleak: enable tracking for percpu pointers") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Reviewed-by: Pavel Tikhomirov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon/core: trace esz at first setup

2026-07-24T14:17:25+00:00

commit 7e6cc35f5283eab81a14231a64ecd640b690c48c upstream. DAMON traces effective size quota from the second update, only if a change has been made by the update. Tracing only changed updates was an intentional decision to avoid unnecessary same value tracing. Always skipping the first value is just an unintended mistake. The mistake makes the tracepoint based investigation incomplete, because the first effective size quota is never traced. It is not a big issue when the 'consist' quota tuner is used, because it keeps changing the quota in the usual setup. However, when the 'temporal' tuner is used, the quota value is not changed before the goal achievement status is completely changed. For example, if the DAMOS scheme is started with an under-achieved goal, the quota is set to the maximum value, and kept the same value until the goal is achieved. Because DAMON skips the first value, the user cannot know what effective quota the current scheme is using. Only after the goal is achieved, the effective quota is changed to zero, and traced. Unconditionally trace the initial quota value to fix this problem. Note that the 'temporal' quota tuner was introduced by commit af738a6a00c1 ("mm/damon/core: introduce DAMOS_QUOTA_GOAL_TUNER_TEMPORAL"), which was added to 7.1-rc1. But even with the 'consist' quota tuner, the tracing is unintentionally incomplete. Hence this commit marks the introduction of the trace event as the broken commit. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260520150311.80925-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: a86d695193bf ("mm/damon: add trace event for effective size quota") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: # 6.17.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids

2026-07-24T14:17:25+00:00

commit 6a66c557a2ab2609575bafd15e093669c05f9711 upstream. damon_commit_target() puts and gets the destination and the source target pids. It puts the destination target pid because it will be overwritten by the source target pid. It gets the source pid because the caller is supposed to eventually put the pids. In more detail, the caller will call damon_destroy_ctx() after damon_commit_ctx() to destroy the entire source context. And in this case, [f]vaddr operation set's cleanup_target() callback will put the pids. The commit operation is made at the context level. The operation can fail in multiple places including in the middle and after the targets commit operations. For any such failures, immediately the error is returned to the damon_commit_ctx() caller. If some or all of the source target pids were committed to the destination during the unsuccessful context commit attempt, those pids should be put twice. The source context will do the put operations using the above explained routine. However, let's suppose the destination context was not originally using [f]vaddr operation set and the commit failed before the ops of the source context is committed. The destination does not have the cleanup_target() ops callback, so it cannot put the pids via the damon_destroy_ctx(). As a result, the pids are leaked. The issue in the real world would be not very common. The commit feature is for changing parameters of running DAMON context while inheriting internal status like the monitoring results. The monitoring results of a physical address range ain't have things that are beneficial to be inherited to a virtual address ranges monitoring. So the problem-causing DAMON control would be not very common in the real world. That said, it is a supported feature. And damon_commit_target() failure due to memory allocation is relatively realistic [1] if there are a huge number of target regions. Fix by putting the pids in the commit operation in case of the failures. The issue was discovered [2] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260605013849.83750-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260603112306.58490-1-akinobu.mita@gmail.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260320020056.835-1-sj@kernel.org [2] Fixes: 83dc7bbaecae ("mm/damon/sysfs: use damon_commit_ctx()") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: # 6.11.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()

2026-07-24T14:17:15+00:00

commit 7da7d599b8a83271c464adfd5ef160202b470570 upstream. free_pages_prepare() can fail but compaction_free() does not handle the failure case. Failed pages should not be added back to cc->freepages for future use, since they can be either PageHWPoison or free_page_is_bad() and might cause data corruption. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260622-handle_free_pages_prepare_in_compaction_free-v1-1-fcf3b14abcf7@nvidia.com Fixes: 733aea0b3a7b ("mm/compaction: add support for >0 order folio memory compaction.") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: Jiaqi Yan Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE

2026-07-24T14:17:02+00:00

commit cd681403a87085562499d60325b7b45d3be11217 upstream. If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early section, section_activate() reuses the unoptimized boot memmap. However, compound_nr_pages() still assumes that vmemmap optimization is in effect and initializes only the reduced number of struct pages. As a result, the remaining tail struct pages are left uninitialized, which can later lead to unexpected behavior or crashes. Fix this by treating early sections as unoptimized when calculating how many struct pages to initialize. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428081855.1249045-7-songmuchun@bytedance.com Fixes: 6fd3620b3428 ("mm/page_alloc: reuse tail struct pages for compound devmaps") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: put stats for scheme_add_dirs() internal error

2026-07-24T14:17:01+00:00

commit 05ea83ee88ca70f8932906d9f2617ff996f45b50 upstream. damon_sysfs_scheme_add_dirs() setup the tried_regions directory after the stats directory setup is completed. When the tried_regions directory setup is failed, the setup function ensures the reference for the tried regions directory is released. Hence the error path should put references on setup succeeded directory objects, starting from the stats directory. However, the error path is putting the tried_regions directory instead of the stats directory. As a direct result, the stats directory object is leaked. Worse yet, if the tried_regions directory setup failed from the initial allocation, the scheme->tried_regions field remains uninitialized. The following kobject_put(&scheme->tried_regions->kobj) call in the error path will dereference the uninitialized memory. The setup failures should not be common. But once it happens, the consequence is quite bad. Fix this issue by correctly putting the stats directory instead of the tried_regions directory. The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260618005650.83868-3-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260617005223.96813-1-sj@kernel.org [1] Fixes: 5181b75f438d ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement schemes/tried_regions directory") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: # 6.2.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman