CVE-2026-53335 PUBLISHED

mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 01.07.2026 Updated: 01.07.2026

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

mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure

DAMON_LRU_SORT allocates the damon_ctx object for its kdamond in its init function. damon_lru_sort_enabled_store() wrongly assumes the allocation will always succeed once tried. If the damon_ctx allocation was failed, therefore, code execution reaches to damon_commit_ctx() while 'ctx' is NULL. As a result, it dereferences the NULL 'ctx' pointer. Avoid the NULL dereference by returning -ENOMEM if 'ctx' is NULL.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c4a8e662c839ac0003e4781aa324cb2d68ed9cb1 to 6d48f15659395bf1381114f01be91bc68e0be46a (excl.)
  • affected from c4a8e662c839ac0003e4781aa324cb2d68ed9cb1 to daab1996431a71f43219dcac48ecc9ad2aad3f1c (excl.)
  • affected from c4a8e662c839ac0003e4781aa324cb2d68ed9cb1 to ab04340b5ae5d52c1d46b750538febcde9d889e7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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