__damon_va_prepare_access_check() picks a random byte address within the region and stores it in r->sampling_addr. There are two users of r->sampling_addr in vaddr.c that pass it into a page table walk, and both use it as the address of a page. damon_va_mkold(mm, r->sampling_addr) damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1) damon_mkold_pmd_entry() damon_ptep_mkold(pte, vma, addr) ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pte) mmu_notifier_clear_young(mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE) damon_va_young(mm, r->sampling_addr, &folio_sz) damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1) damon_young_pmd_entry() ptep_get(pte) mmu_notifier_test_young(walk->mm, addr) For arm64, before commit 6f0e1142173a ("arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios"), the contpte helper walked exactly CONT_PTES entries from the aligned-down page table pointer and used @addr only to pass down to each entry, so an unaligned value was harmless: ptep = contpte_align_down(ptep); addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, CONT_PTE_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < CONT_PTES; i++, ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) Now the range to walk is derived from @addr instead: end = addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE, rounded up to CONT_PTE_SIZE. For a sample in the last page of a contpte block, the sub-page offset puts end just past the block boundary, so the round-up lands a whole block further and the walk clears PTE_AF in CONT_PTES entries beyond the sampled block. For the last block in a page table page, those entries are past the end of that page, so the walk writes into the page that follows. Triggered by the full 7.1/7.2 kernel selftest suite on arm64 (EC2 c/m6g.4xlarge). The kernel sometimes crashes at or shortly after the DAMON test. What the overrun does depends on the page that happens to follow the page table, so there is no single signature. If that page is read-only, the write faults in the sampling path itself: Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff0003c5d2d000 FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault CM = 0, WnR = 1, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 3487 Comm: kdamond.2 pc : contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes+0x70/0xc0 lr : damon_ptep_mkold+0x1e8/0x1f8 Call trace: contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes+0x70/0xc0 (P) damon_mkold_pmd_entry+0x150/0x170 walk_pmd_range+0x110/0x2b0 walk_pud_range+0x10c/0x208 walk_pgd_range+0x134/0x258 __walk_page_range+0x98/0x1b0 walk_page_range_vma_unsafe+0x90/0x148 walk_page_range_vma+0x28/0x40 damon_va_walk_page_range+0x114/0x2b8 damon_va_prepare_access_checks+0xec/0x1a8 kdamond_fn+0x534/0x770 kthread+0x128/0x138 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Otherwise the page is writable, the PTE_AF clearing succeeds silently and the damage only surfaces later, in whatever happened to own the page, so the backtrace is unrelated to DAMON and differs between runs. Align the address down to a page boundary in damon_va_mkold() and damon_va_young(), the two users that pass it into a page table walk. It is the address of the page to sample, so this matches its intended meaning. r->sampling_addr itself is left as is, so the sampling and region bookkeeping semantics are unchanged. Fixes: 6f0e1142173a ("arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios") Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Gao --- V1 -> V2: - Align inside damon_va_mkold() and damon_va_young(), the two users that pass the address into a page table walk, rather than aligning r->sampling_addr itself, so that sub-page sampling addresses remain possible for future non-PTE access check primitives (SJ) - Point Fixes: at 6f0e1142173a instead of 3f49584b262c, since the unaligned address was harmless before that commit (SJ) - Describe how the issue was noticed and what it does to the kernel (SJ) - Reword the subject to match the narrower change v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260827193821.46115-1-zcgao@amazon.com/ mm/damon/vaddr.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c index 2c1c1952c008d..e7aa18200088f 100644 --- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c +++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c @@ -349,6 +349,9 @@ static void damon_va_mkold(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) .hugetlb_entry = damon_mkold_hugetlb_entry, }; + /* Arch helpers can derive a page range from @addr; align it down. */ + addr = PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN(addr); + damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1, &damon_mkold_ops, NULL); } @@ -482,6 +485,9 @@ static bool damon_va_young(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, .hugetlb_entry = damon_young_hugetlb_entry, }; + /* Arch helpers can derive a page range from @addr; align it down. */ + addr = PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN(addr); + damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1, &damon_young_ops, &arg); return arg.young; } -- 2.50.1