Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races

SJ Park <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.damon,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.stable,org.kvack.linux-mm
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:52:28 -0700 SJ Park <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sashiko found a few issues in DAMON that could cause infinite loop, NULL
> dereference and monitoring results degradation.  The first two sounds
> scary but the infinite loop happens only under unreasonable user setup.
> The NULL dereference is only in a unit test.  Monitoring results
> degradation is trivial since it is only best-effort, and those happens
> from only unlikely races.  Still those are bugs that better to fix if
> possible. Fix those.

Sashiko found one more bug that may better to be fixed together with this
series.  Also patch 5 mistakenly lacks its Fixes: tag.  I will post a new
version of this series with the fixes.  Please don't pick this series into
mm-new for now.


Thanks,
SJ

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