Riskcovery

CVE-2025-40227

mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc commit test ctx always

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 4, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc commit test ctx always

The damon_ctx for testing online DAMON parameters commit inputs is deallocated only when the test fails. This means memory is leaked for every successful online DAMON parameters commit. Fix the leak by always deallocating it.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4c9ea539ad59ec60676930dacee02b7adde2e0c0 to before ba236520ae53418859f4b7c7de3c71478d3c0b5aAffected
  • 4c9ea539ad59ec60676930dacee02b7adde2e0c0 to before 139e7a572af0b45f558b5e502121a768dc328ba8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.17.6 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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