diff --git a/java/ql/lib/semmle/code/java/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll b/java/ql/lib/semmle/code/java/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
index ba65e13dd611..767ebc97437b 100644
--- a/java/ql/lib/semmle/code/java/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
+++ b/java/ql/lib/semmle/code/java/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
@@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ module PolynomialRedosConfig implements DataFlow::ConfigSig {
     node instanceof SimpleTypeSanitizer or
     node.asExpr().(MethodCall).getMethod() instanceof LengthRestrictedMethod
   }
+
+  predicate observeDiffInformedIncrementalMode() { any() }
+
+  Location getASelectedSinkLocation(DataFlow::Node sink) {
+    exists(SuperlinearBackTracking::PolynomialBackTrackingTerm regexp |
+      regexp.getRootTerm() = sink.(PolynomialRedosSink).getRegExp()
+    |
+      result = sink.getLocation()
+      or
+      result = regexp.getLocation()
+    )
+  }
 }
 
 module PolynomialRedosFlow = TaintTracking::Global<PolynomialRedosConfig>;
diff --git a/python/ql/lib/semmle/python/security/dataflow/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll b/python/ql/lib/semmle/python/security/dataflow/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
index 0e52764c1950..89aa4961e6ef 100644
--- a/python/ql/lib/semmle/python/security/dataflow/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
+++ b/python/ql/lib/semmle/python/security/dataflow/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
@@ -18,17 +18,7 @@ private module PolynomialReDoSConfig implements DataFlow::ConfigSig {
 
   predicate isBarrier(DataFlow::Node node) { node instanceof Sanitizer }
 
-  // Diff-informed incremental mode is currently disabled for this query due to
-  // API limitations. The query exposes sink.getABacktrackingTerm() as an alert
-  // location, but there is no way to express that information through
-  // getASelectedSinkLocation() because there is no @location in the CodeQL
-  // database that corresponds to a term inside a regular expression. As a
-  // result, this query could miss alerts in diff-informed incremental mode.
-  //
-  // To address this problem, we need to have a version of
-  // getASelectedSinkLocation() that uses hasLocationInfo() instead of
-  // returning Location objects.
-  predicate observeDiffInformedIncrementalMode() { none() }
+  predicate observeDiffInformedIncrementalMode() { any() }
 
   Location getASelectedSinkLocation(DataFlow::Node sink) {
     result = sink.(Sink).getHighlight().getLocation()
diff --git a/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll b/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
index 98a42fcf5e7c..81179717e01e 100644
--- a/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
+++ b/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/security/regexp/PolynomialReDoSQuery.qll
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ private module PolynomialReDoSConfig implements DataFlow::ConfigSig {
   predicate isSink(DataFlow::Node sink) { sink instanceof Sink }
 
   predicate isBarrier(DataFlow::Node node) { node instanceof Sanitizer }
+
+  // Diff-informedness is disabled because of RegExpTerms having incorrect locations when
+  // the regexp is parsed from a string arising from constant folding.
+  predicate observeDiffInformedIncrementalMode() { none() }
+
+  Location getASelectedSinkLocation(DataFlow::Node sink) {
+    result = sink.(Sink).getHighlight().getLocation()
+    or
+    result = sink.(Sink).getRegExp().getRootTerm().getLocation()
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/shared/util/codeql/util/AlertFiltering.qll b/shared/util/codeql/util/AlertFiltering.qll
index 1bc366c0416d..bfc9d901b2fa 100644
--- a/shared/util/codeql/util/AlertFiltering.qll
+++ b/shared/util/codeql/util/AlertFiltering.qll
@@ -8,15 +8,14 @@ module;
 private import codeql.util.Location
 
 /**
- * Holds if the query should produce alerts that match the given line ranges.
+ * Holds if the query may restrict its computation to only produce alerts that match the given line
+ * ranges. This predicate is used for implementing _diff-informed queries_ for pull requests in
+ * GitHub Code Scanning.
  *
  * This predicate is active if and only if it is nonempty. If this predicate is inactive, it has no
- * effect. If it is active, it accepts any alert that has at least one matching location.
- *
- * Note that an alert that is not accepted by this filtering predicate may still be included in the
- * query results if it is accepted by another active filtering predicate in this module. An alert is
- * excluded from the query results if only if (1) there is at least one active filtering predicate,
- * and (2) it is not accepted by any active filtering predicate.
+ * effect. If it is active, queries may omit alerts that don't have a _primary_ or _related_
+ * location (in SARIF terminology) whose start line is within a specified range. Queries are allowed
+ * to produce alerts outside this range.
  *
  * An alert location is a match if it matches a row in this predicate. If `startLineStart` and
  * `startLineEnd` are both 0, the row specifies a whole-file match, and a location is a match if
@@ -29,26 +28,24 @@ private import codeql.util.Location
  * - startLineStart: inclusive start of the range for alert location start line number (1-based).
  * - startLineEnd: inclusive end of the range for alert location start line number (1-based).
  *
- * A query should either perform no alert filtering, or adhere to all the filtering rules in this
- * module and return all and only the accepted alerts.
- *
- * This predicate is suitable for situations where we want to filter alerts at line granularity,
- * such as based on the pull request diff.
+ * Note that an alert that is not accepted by this filtering predicate may still be included in the
+ * query results if it is accepted by another active filtering predicate in this module. An alert is
+ * excluded from the query results if only if (1) there is at least one active filtering predicate,
+ * and (2) it is not accepted by any active filtering predicate.
  *
  * See also: `restrictAlertsToExactLocation`.
  */
 extensible predicate restrictAlertsTo(string filePath, int startLineStart, int startLineEnd);
 
 /**
- * Holds if the query should produce alerts that match the given locations.
+ * Holds if the query may restrict its computation to only produce alerts that match the given
+ * character ranges. This predicate is suitable for testing, where we want to filter by the exact
+ * alert location, distinguishing between alerts on the same line.
  *
  * This predicate is active if and only if it is nonempty. If this predicate is inactive, it has no
- * effect. If it is active, it accepts any alert that has at least one matching location.
- *
- * Note that an alert that is not accepted by this filtering predicate may still be included in the
- * query results if it is accepted by another active filtering predicate in this module. An alert is
- * excluded from the query results if only if (1) there is at least one active filtering predicate,
- * and (2) it is not accepted by any active filtering predicate.
+ * effect. If it is active, queries may omit alerts that don't have a _primary_ or _related_
+ * location (in SARIF terminology) whose location equals a tuple from this predicate. Queries are
+ * allowed to produce alerts outside this range.
  *
  * An alert location is a match if it matches a row in this predicate. Each row specifies an exact
  * location: an alert location is a match if its file path matches `filePath`, its start line and
@@ -61,11 +58,10 @@ extensible predicate restrictAlertsTo(string filePath, int startLineStart, int s
  * - endLine: alert location end line number (1-based).
  * - endColumn: alert location end column number (1-based).
  *
- * A query should either perform no alert filtering, or adhere to all the filtering rules in this
- * module and return all and only the accepted alerts.
- *
- * This predicate is suitable for situations where we want to filter by the exact alert location,
- * distinguishing between alerts on the same line.
+ * Note that an alert that is not accepted by this filtering predicate may still be included in the
+ * query results if it is accepted by another active filtering predicate in this module. An alert is
+ * excluded from the query results if only if (1) there is at least one active filtering predicate,
+ * and (2) it is not accepted by any active filtering predicate.
  *
  * See also: `restrictAlertsTo`.
  */
@@ -75,25 +71,64 @@ extensible predicate restrictAlertsToExactLocation(
 
 /** Module for applying alert location filtering. */
 module AlertFilteringImpl<LocationSig Location> {
-  /** Applies alert filtering to the given location. */
+  pragma[nomagic]
+  private predicate restrictAlertsToEntireFile(string filePath) { restrictAlertsTo(filePath, 0, 0) }
+
+  pragma[nomagic]
+  private predicate restrictAlertsToLine(string filePath, int line) {
+    exists(int startLineStart, int startLineEnd |
+      restrictAlertsTo(filePath, startLineStart, startLineEnd) and
+      line = [startLineStart .. startLineEnd]
+    )
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Holds if the given location intersects the diff range. When that is the
+   * case, ensuring that alerts mentioning this location are included in the
+   * query results is a valid overapproximation of the requirements for
+   * _diff-informed queries_ as documented under `restrictAlertsTo`.
+   *
+   * Testing for full intersection rather than only matching the start line
+   * means that this predicate is more broadly useful than just checking whether
+   * a specific element is considered to be in the diff range of GitHub Code
+   * Scanning:
+   * - If it's inconvenient to pass the exact `Location` of the element of
+   *   interest, it's valid to use a `Location` of an enclosing element.
+   * - This predicate could be useful for other systems of alert presentation
+   *   where the rules don't exactly match GitHub Code Scanning.
+   *
+   * If there is no diff range, this predicate holds for all locations. Note
+   * that this predicate has a bindingset and will therefore be inlined;
+   * callers should include enough context to ensure efficient evaluation.
+   */
   bindingset[location]
   predicate filterByLocation(Location location) {
     not restrictAlertsTo(_, _, _) and not restrictAlertsToExactLocation(_, _, _, _, _)
     or
-    exists(string filePath, int startLineStart, int startLineEnd |
-      restrictAlertsTo(filePath, startLineStart, startLineEnd)
-    |
-      startLineStart = 0 and
-      startLineEnd = 0 and
+    exists(string filePath |
+      restrictAlertsToEntireFile(filePath) and
       location.hasLocationInfo(filePath, _, _, _, _)
       or
-      location.hasLocationInfo(filePath, [startLineStart .. startLineEnd], _, _, _)
+      exists(int locStartLine, int locEndLine |
+        location.hasLocationInfo(filePath, locStartLine, _, locEndLine, _)
+      |
+        restrictAlertsToLine(pragma[only_bind_into](filePath), [locStartLine .. locEndLine])
+      )
     )
     or
-    exists(string filePath, int startLine, int startColumn, int endLine, int endColumn |
-      restrictAlertsToExactLocation(filePath, startLine, startColumn, endLine, endColumn)
+    // Check if an exact filter-location is fully contained in `location`.
+    // This is slow but only used for testing.
+    exists(
+      string filePath, int startLine, int startColumn, int endLine, int endColumn,
+      int filterStartLine, int filterStartColumn, int filterEndLine, int filterEndColumn
     |
-      location.hasLocationInfo(filePath, startLine, startColumn, endLine, endColumn)
+      location.hasLocationInfo(filePath, startLine, startColumn, endLine, endColumn) and
+      restrictAlertsToExactLocation(filePath, filterStartLine, filterStartColumn, filterEndLine,
+        filterEndColumn) and
+      startLine <= filterStartLine and
+      (startLine != filterStartLine or startColumn <= filterStartColumn) and
+      endLine >= filterEndLine and
+      (endLine != filterEndLine or endColumn >= filterEndColumn)
     )
   }
 }