mm-damon-core-validate-damos_quota_goal-nid-for-node_mem_usedfree_bp.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled

     Subject: mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_mem_{used,free}_bp

has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-damon-core-validate-damos_quota_goal-nid-for-node_mem_usedfree_bp.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_mem_{used,free}_bp
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:38:59 -0700

Patch series "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid".

node_mem[cg]_{used,free}_bp DAMOS quota goals receive the node id. The node id is used for si_meminfo_node() and NODE_DATA() without proper validation. As a result, privileged users can trigger an out of bounds memory access using DAMON_SYSFS. Fix the issues.

The issue was originally reported [1] with a fix by another author. The original author announced [2] that they will stop working including the fix that was still in the review stage. Hence I'm restarting this.

This patch (of 2):

Users can set damos_quota_goal->nid with arbitrary value for node_mem_{used,free}_bp. But DAMON core is using those for si_meminfo_node() without the validation of the value. This can result in out of bounds memory access. The issue can actually triggered using DAMON user-space tool (damo), like below.

    $ sudo ./damo start --damos_action stat \
    	--damos_quota_goal node_mem_used_bp 50% -1 \
    	--damos_quota_interval 1s
    $ sudo dmesg
    [...]
    [   65.565986] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000098

Fix this issue by adding the validation of the given node. If an invalid node id is given, it returns 0% for used memory ratio, and 100% for free memory ratio.

---

 mm/damon/core.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

@@ -2217,12 +2217,24 @@ static inline u64 damos_get_some_mem_psi
 #endif	/* CONFIG_PSI */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+static bool invalid_mem_node(int nid)
+{
+	return nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES || !node_state(nid, N_MEMORY);
+}
+
 static __kernel_ulong_t damos_get_node_mem_bp(
 		struct damos_quota_goal *goal)
 {
 	struct sysinfo i;
 	__kernel_ulong_t numerator;
 
+	if (invalid_mem_node(goal->nid)) {
+		if (goal->metric == DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEM_USED_BP)
+			return 0;
+		else	/* DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEM_FREE_BP */
+			return 10000;
+	}
+
 	si_meminfo_node(&i, goal->nid);
 	if (goal->metric == DAMOS_QUOTA_NODE_MEM_USED_BP)
 		numerator = i.totalram - i.freeram;

_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-damon-core-disallow-time-quota-setting-zero-esz.patch mm-damon-core-disallow-non-power-of-two-min_region_sz-on-damon_start.patch