Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/damon: adjust isolated pages stat for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}
[email protected] Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:10:48 +0000
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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
Pre-existing issues:
- [High] Early return in damon_migrate_pages() leaves isolated folios on the caller's list, causing memory leaks, stat inflation, and stack UAF.
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--- Patch [1]: [RFC PATCH] mm/damon: adjust isolated pages stat for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} ---
commit 1efec5dea2b48b50043eba6bdae1821a99318049
Author: SJ Park <[email protected]>
mm/damon: adjust isolated pages stat for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}
Callers of migrate_pages() should adjust NR_MIGRATED_{ANON,FILE} for
isolations and putback of the folios. This patch fixes DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}
which mistakenly missed the stat adjustment, potentially confusing compaction
and reclaim.
Link: https://github.com/damonitor/damo
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
> diff --git a/mm/damon/ops-common.c b/mm/damon/ops-common.c
> index e59f77eca83b2..9809fa12b09a8 100644
> --- a/mm/damon/ops-common.c
> +++ b/mm/damon/ops-common.c
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/mm/damon/paddr.c b/mm/damon/paddr.c
> index 5a6a78054784a..5c6c3a597fd0b 100644
> --- a/mm/damon/paddr.c
> +++ b/mm/damon/paddr.c
> @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ static unsigned long damon_pa_migrate(struct damon_region *r,
>
> if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio))
> goto put_folio;
> + node_stat_add_folio(folio, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
> + folio_is_file_lru(folio));
> list_add(&folio->lru, &folio_list);
[Severity: High]
This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but if s->target_nid is invalid
(e.g., if it defaults to NUMA_NO_NODE), damon_migrate_pages() returns early
without draining the folio list:
mm/damon/ops-common.c:damon_migrate_pages() {
if (target_nid < 0 || target_nid >= MAX_NUMNODES ||
!node_state(target_nid, N_MEMORY))
return nr_migrated;
...
}
Since folio_list is a stack variable here in damon_pa_migrate() and is passed
to damon_migrate_pages() later in this function, wouldn't this early return
permanently leak the isolated folios and cause a use-after-free when the stack
variable goes out of scope?
Furthermore, with this patch applied, doesn't this error path also permanently
inflate the newly added NR_ISOLATED stats because the cleanup loop in
damon_migrate_folio_list() is never reached?
A similar issue appears to exist in mm/damon/vaddr.c:damos_va_migrate(),
where priv.migration_lists is freed without checking if any folios were left
behind by an early return.
> put_folio:
> addr += folio_size(folio);
[ ... ]
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