CVE-2022-48996

mm/damon/sysfs: fix wrong empty schemes assumption under online tuning in damon_sysfs_set_schemes()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Aug 22, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/damon/sysfs: fix wrong empty schemes assumption under online tuning in damon_sysfs_set_schemes()

Commit da87878010e5 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update") made 'damon_sysfs_set_schemes()' to be called for running DAMON context, which could have schemes. In the case, DAMON sysfs interface is supposed to update, remove, or add schemes to reflect the sysfs files. However, the code is assuming the DAMON context wouldn't have schemes at all, and therefore creates and adds new schemes. As a result, the code doesn't work as intended for online schemes tuning and could have more than expected memory footprint. The schemes are all in the DAMON context, so it doesn't leak the memory, though.

Remove the wrong asssumption (the DAMON context wouldn't have schemes) in 'damon_sysfs_set_schemes()' to fix the bug.

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • da87878010e59869d4d27b3c01ecc8ec06ff4a20 to before f98d1f2a36ad7ab48fb4cf73ca14e7b19482fd4dAffected
  • da87878010e59869d4d27b3c01ecc8ec06ff4a20 to before 95bc35f9bee5220dad4e8567654ab3288a181639Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.0.12 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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