The patch below does not apply to the 6.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.16.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x e6b733ca2f99e968d696c2e812c8eb8e090bf37b # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025092121-boned-marbles-55ea@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.16.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e6b733ca2f99e968d696c2e812c8eb8e090bf37b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 19:22:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] samples/damon/prcl: avoid starting DAMON before initialization

Commit 2780505ec2b4 ("samples/damon/prcl: fix boot time enable crash") is somehow incompletely applying the origin patch [1]. It is missing the part that avoids starting DAMON before module initialization. Probably a mistake during a merge has happened. Fix it by applying the missed part again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250909022238.2989-3-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250706193207.39810-3-sj@kernel.org [1] Fixes: 2780505ec2b4 ("samples/damon/prcl: fix boot time enable crash") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org

diff --git a/samples/damon/prcl.c b/samples/damon/prcl.c index 1b839c06a612..0226652f94d5 100644 --- a/samples/damon/prcl.c +++ b/samples/damon/prcl.c @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ static int damon_sample_prcl_enable_store( if (enabled == is_enabled) return 0;

+ if (!init_called) + return 0; + if (enabled) { err = damon_sample_prcl_start(); if (err)