From: Badari Pulavarty <badari.pulavarty@xxxxxxxxx> When user tries to create a DAMON context via the DAMON debugfs interface with a name of an already existing context, the context directory creation silently fails but the context is added in the internal data structure. As a result, memory could leak and DAMON cannot be turned on. An example test case is as below: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/damon/ # echo "off" > monitor_on # echo paddr > target_ids # echo "abc" > mk_context # echo "abc" > mk_context # echo $$ > abc/target_ids # echo "on" > monitor_on <<< fails This commit fixes the issue by checking if the name already exist and immediately returning '-EEXIST' in the case. Fixes: 75c1c2b53c78 ("mm/damon/dbgfs: support multiple contexts") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.15.x Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <badari.pulavarty@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/damon/DM6PR11MB3978994F75A4104D714437379C679@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/) - Manually check duplicate entry instead of checking 'debugfs_create_dir()' return value - Reword commit message and the test case Seems Badari have some email client issue, so I (SJ) am making this second version of the patch based on Badari's final proposal and repost on behalf of Badari. mm/damon/dbgfs.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c index 51d67c8050dd..364b44063c2f 100644 --- a/mm/damon/dbgfs.c +++ b/mm/damon/dbgfs.c @@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ static void dbgfs_destroy_ctx(struct damon_ctx *ctx) */ static int dbgfs_mk_context(char *name) { - struct dentry *root, **new_dirs, *new_dir; + struct dentry *root, **new_dirs, *new_dir, *dir; struct damon_ctx **new_ctxs, *new_ctx; if (damon_nr_running_ctxs()) @@ -817,6 +817,12 @@ static int dbgfs_mk_context(char *name) if (!root) return -ENOENT; + dir = debugfs_lookup(name, root); + if (dir) { + dput(dir); + return -EEXIST; + } + new_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, root); dbgfs_dirs[dbgfs_nr_ctxs] = new_dir; -- 2.25.1