CVE-2026-31653 PUBLISHED

mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc repeat_call_control if damon_call() fails

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

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

mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc repeat_call_control if damon_call() fails

damon_call() for repeat_call_control of DAMON_SYSFS could fail if somehow the kdamond is stopped before the damon_call(). It could happen, for example, when te damon context was made for monitroing of a virtual address processes, and the process is terminated immediately, before the damon_call() invocation. In the case, the dyanmically allocated repeat_call_control is not deallocated and leaked.

Fix the leak by deallocating the repeat_call_control under the damon_call() failure.

This issue is discovered by sashiko [1].

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 04a06b139ec08aa63d7377f6d3e5218f8ddb1c5d to b9dadf026a9fb681ed32a0646adc10ab485bf3b1 (excl.)
  • affected from 04a06b139ec08aa63d7377f6d3e5218f8ddb1c5d to 0655f5cf1735508394ef8af98ddcfab3ac1c1cc5 (excl.)
  • affected from 04a06b139ec08aa63d7377f6d3e5218f8ddb1c5d to 0199390a6b92fc21860e1b858abf525c7e73b956 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.17 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.23 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.13 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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