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SeongJae Park ca40e83898 mm/damon/core: fix list_add_tail() call on damon_call() 
commit c3fa5b1bfd upstream.

Each damon_ctx maintains callback requests using a linked list
(damon_ctx->call_controls).  When a new callback request is received via
damon_call(), the new request should be added to the list.  However, the
function is making a mistake at list_add_tail() invocation: putting the
new item to add and the list head to add it before, in the opposite order.
Because of the linked list manipulation implementation, the new request
can still be reached from the context's list head.  But the list items
that were added before the new request are dropped from the list.

As a result, the callbacks are unexpectedly not invocated.  Worse yet, if
the dropped callback requests were dynamically allocated, the memory is
leaked.  Actually DAMON sysfs interface is using a dynamically allocated
repeat-mode callback request for automatic essential stats update.  And
because the online DAMON parameters commit is using a non-repeat-mode
callback request, the issue can easily be reproduced, like below.

    # damo start --damos_action stat --refresh_stat 1s
    # damo tune --damos_action stat --refresh_stat 1s

The first command dynamically allocates the repeat-mode callback request
for automatic essential stat update.  Users can see the essential stats
are automatically updated for every second, using the sysfs interface.

The second command calls damon_commit() with a new callback request that
was made for the commit.  As a result, the previously added repeat-mode
callback request is dropped from the list.  The automatic stats refresh
stops working, and the memory for the repeat-mode callback request is
leaked.  It can be confirmed using kmemleak.

Fix the mistake on the list_add_tail() call.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251014205939.1206-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 004ded6bee ("mm/damon: accept parallel damon_call() requests")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.17+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-29 14:10:25 +01:00
arch MIPS: Malta: Fix keyboard resource preventing i8042 driver from registering 2025-10-29 14:10:23 +01:00
block block: Remove elevator_lock usage from blkg_conf frozen operations 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE 2025-10-23 16:24:38 +02:00
drivers drm/amd/display: increase max link count and fix link->enc NULL pointer access 2025-10-29 14:10:25 +01:00
fs ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents 2025-10-29 14:10:23 +01:00
include virtio-net: zero unused hash fields 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:37:27 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: be smarter on when to update the stime usage 2025-10-29 14:10:21 +01:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel rv: Make rtapp/pagefault monitor depends on CONFIG_MMU 2025-10-29 14:10:23 +01:00
lib lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/damon/core: fix list_add_tail() call on damon_call() 2025-10-29 14:10:25 +01:00
net mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR 2025-10-29 14:10:24 +01:00
rust rust: device: fix device context of Device::parent() 2025-10-29 14:10:22 +01:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
sound ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails 2025-10-23 16:24:37 +02:00
tools selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported 2025-10-29 14:10:24 +01:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Unbreak 'make tools/*' for user-space targets 2025-10-29 14:10:18 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.