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CVE-2026-46087

mm/damon/stat: fix memory leak on damon_start() failure in damon_stat_start() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/stat: fix memory leak on damon_start() failure in damon_stat_start() Destroy the DAMON context and reset the global pointer when damon_start() fails. Otherwise, the context allocated by damon_stat_build_ctx() is leaked, and the stale damon_stat_context pointer will be overwritten on the next enable attempt, making the old allocation permanently unreachable.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 369c415e60732b7c8ed33368891581246f580d7a before 8a62c58411cbd748d7aeab0e5b0963e33ff47a7a; affected 369c415e60732b7c8ed33368891581246f580d7a before 50bc1d7e0f3bb6932c8dc5da0907eead0790176b; affected 369c415e60732b7c8ed33368891581246f580d7a before e04ed278d25bf15769800bf6e35c6737f137186f
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.17; unaffected 0 before 6.17; unaffected 6.18.27 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.4 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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