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CVE-2026-31459

mm/damon/sysfs: fix param_ctx leak on damon_sysfs_new_test_ctx() failure PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/sysfs: fix param_ctx leak on damon_sysfs_new_test_ctx() failure Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues", v4. DAMON_SYSFS can leak memory under allocation failure, and do NULL pointer dereference when a privileged user make wrong sequences of control. Fix those. This patch (of 3): When damon_sysfs_new_test_ctx() fails in damon_sysfs_commit_input(), param_ctx is leaked because the early return skips the cleanup at the out label. Destroy param_ctx before returning.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected f0c5118ebb0eb7e4fd6f0d2ace3315ca141b317f before e9de9f3ce06b133a348006668bc8d25c6e504867; affected f0c5118ebb0eb7e4fd6f0d2ace3315ca141b317f before f76f0a964bc3d7b7e253b43c669c41356bc54e71; affected f0c5118ebb0eb7e4fd6f0d2ace3315ca141b317f before 7fe000eb32904758a85e62f6ea9483f89d5dabfc; affected 5b3609d9b9650bdea0bfdf643e0ce57e1aed67fc; affected 6.17.6 before 6.18
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.18; unaffected 0 before 6.18; unaffected 6.18.21 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.11 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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